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MICROSOFT WAS SKEPTICAL OF OPENAI, FEARED AMAZON RIVAL

Internal Microsoft emails from 2018 reveal the company harbored doubts about OpenAI's viability, yet hesitated to distance itself for fear of pushing the startup toward Amazon.

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