The tech giant forms a team led by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to build top artificial-intelligence systems and distance itself from its longtime partner.

OpenAI has taken a historic step, officially transforming into a Public Benefit Corporation on October 28, 2025, reshaping the future of artificial intelligence development and governance. The company now stands as the world’s most valuable private AI firm at $500 billion,

Cloud infrastructure services are swiftly becoming a hot commodity in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

Microsoft’s update on its AI efforts comes less than two weeks after it revised its partnership agreement with OpenAI. Under the new contract, Microsoft may pursue research into artificial general intelligence independently of the ChatGPT developer. Furthermore, it can use OpenAI’s AI models to accelerate its research.

Microsoft has entered into a $9.7 billion cloud services contract with artificial intelligence cloud service provider IREN that will give it access to some of Nvidia’s chips.

Microsoft is a rising star in the cloud computing world.