Microsoft launched seven first-party AI models at Build 2026, creating a direct alternative to OpenAI’s offerings on Azure and signaling a strategic shift in how the company plans to serve developers.

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OpenAI has released its first set of open-weight models since GPT-2, and Microsoft is accelerating developer adoption by launching these models-gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b--on both Azure AI Foundry ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move, which came after Anthropic’s roughly $200 ...