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IT Home reported on August 1 that Microsoft and OpenAI The relationship between Microsoft and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has become more complicated. In its 10-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), MicrosoftOpenAI was officially listed as a competitor, and the list also included companies that had existed before, such as Amazon, Google, and Meta.

Although Microsoft is OpenAI's largest investor, having invested approximately US$13 billion (IT Home Note: currently approximately RMB 93.917 billion) in it and serves as its exclusive cloud service provider, applying OpenAI's AI models to commercial and consumer products, the partnership between the two companies seems to be undergoing subtle changes.

In the file,Microsoft will ChatGPT Chatbot creator OpenAI identified as competitor in AI products and search and news advertisingLast week, OpenAI released a prototype of a search engine called SearchGPT.

An OpenAI spokesperson said:There has been no change in the relationship between the two companies, Microsoft remains a good partner of OpenAI, and when the partnership was established, the two parties had reached a consensus that competition might occur.

However, relations between the two companies have been turbulent this year. In November last year, OpenAI's board of directors ousted CEO Sam Altman without Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's knowledge. After Altman's quick reinstatement, OpenAI gave Microsoft a non-voting board seat, but Microsoft gave up the seat earlier this month.

In March this year, Nadella hired DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman as the new CEO of Microsoft's AI department, and several Inflection employees also joined Microsoft. DeepMind is an AI research company established earlier than OpenAI and was acquired by Google in 2014.