Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)

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Microsoft’s AI chief framed its renegotiated OpenAI deal as enabling a direct push to become a top frontier lab.

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<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942242/microsoft-build-ai-agents-openai-competition"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260603/i38.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260603/p38#a260603p38" 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="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942242/microsoft-build-ai-agents-openai-competition">Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become &ldquo;one of the top four labs in the world&rdquo;, and &ldquo;the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives &hellip; </p>