Inside Morgan Stanley’s OpenAI Push

During the most harrowing moments of the OpenAI leadership crisis, one of the startup’s biggest partnerships—a deal with Morgan Stanley that is supposed to demonstrate how AI can change the game at a giant, highly regulated Wall Street bank—was left twisting in the wind.

Executives at Morgan Stanley, one of OpenAI’s biggest customers, wondered what would happen to their chatbot for financial advisers if OpenAI fell apart. They discussed what they might do if Altman wasn’t reinstated as CEO and …

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