Microsoft is continuing to expand its fleet of AI partners, hedging its bets beyond its high-profile partnership with OpenAI — a change that’s coming into sharper focus this week at the company’s Build developer conference.

The purchase — the largest in OpenAI’s history — will provide the company with a dedicated unit for developing AI-powered devices.

OpenAI had just 300 employees when it launched ChatGPT. Within a year, it doubled in size, causing chaos and high turnover for employees.

OpenAI is currently in “a tough negotiation” with one of its biggest investors and partners, Microsoft, according to the Financial Times. The AI startup

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to lend more than $7 billion to the firms building OpenAI’s giant artificial intelligence data center campus in Abilene, Tex., according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal.

Ilya Sutskever, the brains behind ChatGPT, told scientists at OpenAI in the summer of 2023: “Once we all get into the bunker…”

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) declared that it will integrate an AI coding agent created by the Google-backed startup Anthropic into its GitHub platform. Executive Vice President Jay Parikh announced it on Tuesday during the company’s annual developer conference.

Microsoft announced new tools for companies to develop their own AI services that have analysts confident in the tech giant’s AI momentum and strategy.