Elon Musk warned about this three months ago, and now Microsoft may actually sue Sam Altman’s OpenAI over…
Three months ago, Elon Musk tweeted six words that look a lot more prophetic today: “OpenAI will compete directly with Microsoft.” He wasn’t speculating into the void—he was responding to reports of Sam Altman eyeing an AI-native productivity suite that would step on Microsoft’s turf. The current legal standoff isn’t about that productivity suite—it’s about cloud exclusivity and an enterprise AI platform called Frontier—but the broader point Musk was making is holding up just fine.
The Financial Times reported on March 18 that Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI over its $50 billion partnership with Amazon—a deal that Microsoft believes violates the exclusivity terms in its own cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker.
