微软竞速降低对OpenAI依赖

Microsoft built its early lead in generative AI around an unusually close partnership with OpenAI. That relationship placed advanced language models inside Azure, Copilot, Bing and Microsoft 365 before many rivals had worked out how to turn the technology into products. The next stage looks different. Microsoft is beginning to route work inside Excel, Outlook and other services to models developed by its own AI organization, reducing the cost and strategic dependence created when an outside laboratory supplies the intelligence beneath essential software. This is not a sudden separation. Microsoft retains access to OpenAI technology under an agreement extending model and product rights through 2032. …