Microsoft plays second fiddle again to OpenAI

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Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI and provided much of the computing power in the AI startup’s early years. But in their frenemy competition for AI consumers, Microsoft continues to play second-fiddle to OpenAI, Austin Carr reports in today’s Tech In Depth. The latest example, an AI browser that OpenAI introduced to great fanfare last week — two days after Microsoft’s introduction of its product received little attention, he writes. 

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