Microsoft is pursuing “true self-sufficiency” in AI by building its own powerful models and reducing its reliance on OpenAI, according to the company’s AI chief. Mustafa Suleyman told the FT that the strategic shift follows a restructuring of its relationship with the ChatGPT maker in October. That has prompted the $3tn company to build its most advanced technology independently, rather than rely on an external partner. “We have to develop our own foundation models, which are at the absolute frontier, with gigawatt-scale compute and some of the very best AI training teams in the world,” said the Google DeepMind co-founder who joined Microsoft in 2024.

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