Microsoft says it’s now “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman revealed that a contractual change with OpenAI six months ago “set the company free” to independently pursue superintelligence, marking a major strategic shift. Microsoft has already launched seven fully in-house MAI models spanning reasoning, code, image generation, transcription, and voice, all trained from scratch on licensed data. Suleyman outlined a long term plan for Microsoft to become a self sufficient frontier AI lab, powered by its own models, custom silicon, and enterprise tuned training pipelines. He argues that the next competitive edge will come from enterprise data and vertically integrated AI systems, positioning Microsoft to challenge OpenAI and other labs by 2030.

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