Microsoft AI boss confirms development of "off-frontier" AI models, but they'll be 3 or 6 months behind OpenAI: "Our strategy is to really play a very tight second"

Mustafa Suleyman.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff predicted at the beginning of this year that Microsoft may emancipate itself from an overreliance on OpenAI for its AI smarts, predicting that the former is already developing its own frontier AI models.

This was shortly after OpenAI unveiled its $500 billion Stargate project designed to facilitate the construction of data centers across the United States for its AI efforts. Aside from gaining more independence from OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly raised concerns about OpenAI's GPT-4 model being too expensive and not fast enough to meet consumer needs.