Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. At a White House press conference,

Stargate is little more than an extension of Sam Altman's powerful AI company, anonymous sources told the Financial Times.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has distanced himself from Elon Musk and Sam Altman's dispute about funding for the President Trump-backed Stargate project.

OpenAI and SoftBank's "Stargate" took the world by storm after announcing the $500 billion project, which they are collaborating with Oracle and MGX. While making the announcement, the ChatGPT maker indicated that up to $100 billion had already been injected into the project to facilitate the construction of data centers across the United States to bolster sophisticated AI advances.