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Kevin Okemwa

Elon Musk pushed OpenAI into working with Microsoft and Azure from the early days — new court papers reveal his dismissal of Amazon's Jeff Bezos as a "tool"

The logo of 'OpenAI' is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

Microsoft and OpenAI's multi-billion-dollar partnership is arguably the best tech "bromance" in history. However, the partnership has undergone a lot of turbulence over the year, from Sam Altman's abrupt ouster as CEO in 2023 and investor pressure on OpenAI to evolve into a for-profit venture to copyright infringement lawsuits.

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk is arguably the harshest critic of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, which is ironic since he co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and was intimately involved in the company's affairs until his departure from the board in 2018.

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