There's a growing rift between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella – Microsoft could block OpenAI's for-profit restructuring

In brief: Is the perfect marriage of the intersection between AI and Big Tech heading for divorce? According to sources, OpenAI and Microsoft aren't as cozy as they once were, and the strain is beginning to show on their respective CEOs, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella.

Microsoft helped push OpenAI to the top of the multi-billion-dollar AI industry by investing $13 billion into the firm since 2019. ChatGPT is closing in on one billion users, and OpenAI was recently valued at $300 billion.

But the Wall Street Journal reports that a rift is growing between the companies' CEOs, Altman and Nadella. The publication writes that there has been tension over the computing power Microsoft provides OpenAI, the access the startup gives the Windows maker to its models, and whether OpenAI really will create artificial general intelligence (AGI) any time soon. Altman keeps stating that this is close to happening ...