By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 10:56:00
Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has revealed that a previous agreement with OpenAI has effectively prevented the tech giant from developing its own artificial intelligence (AGI) models. This restriction has only been lifted recently. Speaking in an interview with Business Insider, Suleyman disclosed that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI included an important clause which barred Microsoft from independently pursuing AGI until 2030. Suleyman said that this limitation kept Microsoft from building its own frontier models and forced it to focus on smaller-scale AI efforts and post-training OpenAI’s models for specific applications. “Microsoft needs to be self-sufficient in AI,” Suleyman said. “And to do that, we have to train frontier models of all scales with our own data and compute at the state-of-the-art level.”
New deal and new direction
As per the report by Business Insider, the…
