Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Focus is on in-house AI models

Microsoft is no longer content being powered by someone else’s AI. The company’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has told the Financial Times that Microsoft is pushing toward “true AI self-sufficiency”—a clear signal that the tech giant is actively reducing its dependence on OpenAI, even as the two companies remain contractually tied.

“My personal mission at Microsoft is to build superintelligence,” Suleyman said in the interview, adding that the company must develop its own frontier foundation models with “gigawatt scale compute” and “some of the very best AI training team in the world.”