Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B (Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/microsoft-eyeing-startup-deals-life-after-openai-2026-05-13/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260513/i48.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260513/p48#a260513p48" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/microsoft-eyeing-startup-deals-life-after-openai-2026-05-13/">Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI &hellip; </p>