<p>Davos: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said he had no issue with partner OpenAI's governance structure, two months after the startup's non-profit board temporarily ousted its chief executive without regard to investors' interests.</p><p>"I'm comfortable. I have no issues with any structure," Nadella said at a <em>Bloomberg News</em> event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.</p><p>The surprise November dismissal of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman over an alleged communication breakdown triggered a crisis at the startup behind ChatGPT, in which employees threatened to resign en masse and go work for Microsoft, which is backing OpenAI with billions of dollars.</p><p>OpenAI's board, charged with protecting the startup non-profit's mission to develop powerful artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, ultimately restored Altman days later.</p>.OpenAI not to allow AI for political campaigning, lobbying in elections.<p>Microsoft has since secured a non-voting observer position on the OpenAI board.</p><p>Competition authorities in Europe, Britain and reportedly the United States have started looking closely at the Microsoft-OpenAI relationship. Their agreement guarantees the Windows maker large chunks of the startup's profits depending on certain conditions, a person briefed on the terms has said.</p><p>According to Nadella, the fact that Microsoft does not fully own OpenAI distinguished their deal in a pro-competitive way.</p><p>"Partnerships is one avenue of, in fact, having competition," he said.</p><p>Microsoft's investments in computing power and years-old bet on OpenAI before its ChatGPT fame, Nadella said, were a "highly risky bet" and "not all conventional wisdom". </p>
<p>Davos: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said he had no issue with partner OpenAI's governance structure, two months after the startup's non-profit board temporarily ousted its chief executive without regard to investors' interests.</p><p>"I'm comfortable. I have no issues with any structure," Nadella said at a <em>Bloomberg News</em> event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.</p><p>The surprise November dismissal of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman over an alleged communication breakdown triggered a crisis at the startup behind ChatGPT, in which employees threatened to resign en masse and go work for Microsoft, which is backing OpenAI with billions of dollars.</p><p>OpenAI's board, charged with protecting the startup non-profit's mission to develop powerful artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, ultimately restored Altman days later.</p>.OpenAI not to allow AI for political campaigning, lobbying in elections.<p>Microsoft has since secured a non-voting observer position on the OpenAI board.</p><p>Competition authorities in Europe, Britain and reportedly the United States have started looking closely at the Microsoft-OpenAI relationship. Their agreement guarantees the Windows maker large chunks of the startup's profits depending on certain conditions, a person briefed on the terms has said.</p><p>According to Nadella, the fact that Microsoft does not fully own OpenAI distinguished their deal in a pro-competitive way.</p><p>"Partnerships is one avenue of, in fact, having competition," he said.</p><p>Microsoft's investments in computing power and years-old bet on OpenAI before its ChatGPT fame, Nadella said, were a "highly risky bet" and "not all conventional wisdom". </p>