Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Drew Angerer
- Microsoft's OpenAI investment may have been prompted by concerns over Google's AI progress.
- In a 2019 email, a Microsoft exec said he was "very, very worried" about Google's AI capabilities.
- The emails were made public as part of the DoJ's antitrust case against Google.
In 2019, Microsoft became "very, very worried" about Google's AI capabilities, newly unearthed emails show, and that may have been what spurred it to invest in OpenAI.