By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2025-11-13 16:13:00
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company’s partnership with OpenAI gives it access to all of OpenAI’s intellectual property except consumer hardware, providing Microsoft with AI capabilities that reduce concerns about Google’s competition in the field. OpenAI, on its part, has also struck deals with Nvidia, AMD and Google for AI chips, data centers and AI model training.During a podcast, Nadella explained the scope of Microsoft’s access to OpenAI’s technology. When asked if Microsoft has access to OpenAI’s IP, Nadella responded: “In our case, the good news here is OpenAI has a program in which we have access to.”When pressed about whether Microsoft has access to all of it, Nadella confirmed: “All of it.”“So the only IP you don’t have is consumer hardware?” the interviewer asked, to which Nadella responded, “That’s it”. “By the way, we gave them a bunch of IPs as well to bootstrap them, right? So, this is one of the reasons why they had a mass because we…