There's no doubt that Microsoft's multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI has been under immense strain and tension, especially with the latter's plan to evolve into a for-profit venture to avoid losing investor funding, outsider interference, and hostile takeovers.
Over the past few months, Microsoft has made strategic moves, seemingly relieving itself from an overdependence on OpenAI and its tech by developing its own off-frontier models, which will be 3 to 6 months behind the ChatGPT maker's.
