With MAI-1, Is Microsoft Trying to Compete with OpenAI?

Microsoft is training a 500B parameter model. It's caused huge speculation that the company is trying to move farther away from their partnership with OpenAI. Microsoft denies it, but could both the denial and the skepticism be true?
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