Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tensions and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. Dig deeper:

In a significant shift in the landscape of artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump unveiled the Stargate Project, a joint venture involving OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank. This ambitious initiative aims to invest billions in AI infrastructure across the United States,

Despite investing almost $14 billion in OpenAI and using the startup’s AI models for its next-generation cloud services, Microsoft was mentioned only as a technology partner in a joint venture called Stargate launched by OpenAI,