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Jez Corden

Microsoft's advantages in artificial intelligence evaporate — Google Gemini surges ahead, and OpenAI declares "code red" situation

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, speaks at a joint press conference announcing a strategic partnership with Kakao at the Plaza Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, on February 4, 2025.

Things aren't looking up for Microsoft's AI aspirations right now, with reports that OpenAI has declared "code red."

It's no secret that Microsoft and other major tech companies are vying for a top spot in the artificial intelligence race. Utilizing a range of technologies from large language models (LLMs) and image-creating diffusion models, Microsoft partnered early with OpenAI to commercialize the technology. Microsoft baked ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence chat bots, directly into Windows itself via a product called Copilot. DALLE image generation models also appear in Copilot and Bing, and a variety of Microsoft's Azure enterprise products also come with OpenAI technologies.

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