Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella was worried about Microsoft being ‘the next IBM’ in OpenAI deal

Sam Altman greets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco in 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Satya Nadella drew a historical parallel to Microsoft’s early PC partnership with IBM as the tech giant prepared to invest $10 billion more in OpenAI in April 2022 — writing in an internal email that he didn’t want Microsoft to become IBM while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. That email, presented as evidence by Elon Musk’s lead trial attorney Steven Molo, was one of the