OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ouster in November laid bare how inextricably linked Microsoft and his company have become. Nadella personally advocated for Altman’s return and, at one point, offered him a job. Those ties, together with Microsoft’s some US$13 billion investment in the startup, have spurred antitrust reviews in both the UK and the European Union.
Microsoft Corp CEO Satya Nadella said he doesn’t want greater control over OpenAI as European and UK regulators consider probes of the deep ties between the two companies.
“What we just want is good stability,” he said in an interview at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We invested, we partnered when they were whatever they were and whatever they are today — a capped-profit, nonprofit, what have you. So I’m comfortable. I have no issues with any structure.”
