Platforms don’t want to rent intelligence forever.
Model labs don’t want to be locked inside someone else’s cloud.
“Gigawatt-scale compute” isn’t about hardware.
It’s about sovereignty — who controls training, deployment, and distribution.
REPORT: Microsoft is gearing up to ditch OpenAI and ChatGPT, and build its own frontier models.
In a new interview with FT, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman confirmed the move, stating:
"We have to develop our own foundation models, which are at the absolute frontier, with gigawatt-scale compute and some of the very best AI training teams in the world."
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