
Following OpenAI and SoftBank's surprise announcement of the $500 billion Stargate project designed to facilitate the construction of data centers across the United States, Microsoft lost its status as the ChatGPT maker's exclusive cloud provider. In an interview with CNBC, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (well-known for criticizing Microsoft's AI efforts) indicated:
"I think it's extremely important that OpenAI gets to other platforms because Microsoft is building their own AI and I don't think Microsoft will use OpenAI in the future."