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"I'm comfortable. I have no issues with any structure," Nadella
said at a Bloomberg News event on the sidelines of the World
Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.
The surprise November dismissal of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman over
an alleged communication breakdown triggered a crisis at the
startup behind ChatGPT, in which employees threatened to resign
en masse and go work for Microsoft, which is backing OpenAI with
billions of dollars.
OpenAI's board, charged with protecting the startup non-profit's
mission to develop powerful artificial intelligence that
benefits humanity, ultimately restored Altman days later.
Microsoft has since secured a non-voting observer position on
the OpenAI board.
Competition authorities in Europe, Britain and reportedly the
United States have started looking closely at the Microsoft-OpenAI
relationship. Their agreement guarantees the Windows maker large
chunks of the startup's profits depending on certain conditions,
a person briefed on the terms has said.
According to Nadella, the fact that Microsoft does not fully own
OpenAI distinguished their deal in a pro-competitive way.
"Partnerships is one avenue of, in fact, having competition," he
said.
Microsoft's investments in computing power and years-old bet on
OpenAI before its ChatGPT fame, Nadella said, were a "highly
risky bet" and "not all conventional wisdom".
(Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin in Davos, Switzerland; Editing by
Alex Richardson)
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