Microsoft partnership with OpenAI has become increasingly strained by the AI startup’s need for more funding and computing power, Microsoft’s recruitment of leaders from OpenAI rival Inflection AI, and questions over the Redmond company’s equity stake in any future version of OpenAI as a for-profit company.

OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft; Microsoft has tried hedging its bet on OpenAI. The “best bromance in tech” may be unraveling.

The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and, increasingly, rival, Microsoft, reporting their five-year romance has cooled owing to financial pressure on OpenAI,

A new report details how the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI has recently become more tense as the AI startup gets ready to transition into a for-profit company.

Microsoft had already pumped $13 bn into OpenAI, and Nadella was initially willing to keep the cash spigot flowing. But after OpenAI's board of directors briefly ousted Altman, Microsoft reconsidered