Amazon has joined Microsoft in offering access to Chinese startup DeepSeek's low-cost, open-source artificial intelligence training models. DeepSeek is challenging Meta in open-source models.

Microsoft is OpenAI's largest investor, with a 49% stake, translating to $14 billion. As part of its complicated partnership with the ChatGPT maker, Microsoft was once the exclusive cloud computing partner for OpenAI. However, OpenAI's $500 billion investment in computing infrastructure changes its relationship with Microsoft.

Microsoft reported that its flagship cloud computing business experienced a slowdown in growth amid constraints on data center supply.

Microsoft won’t be the sole cloud provider for OpenAI but can decide whether to deliver the capacity or allow another company to do it.

The software giant was previously the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI and now retains right of first refusal.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI said on Tuesday said that Chinese firms are "constantly" trying to tap into U.S. rivals to improve Chinese artificial intelligence models.

The race to develop AI has already rewritten the traditional rules of finance, with Big Tech leading the charge.

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The OpenAI logo at the company’s 2023 developer conference. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will no longer be the exclusive provider of new cloud computing capacity to OpenAI — a ...

The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.

In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Group had missed out on it.