When Microsoft first launched the Bing Chat chatbot back in February, many users found that it gave some pretty weird and even very personal answers to some chat questions from their first public users. As a result, Microsoft quickly limited the number of daily and in-session chats to a small number to avoid some of these awkward interactions. (Microsoft has since expanded these chat limits).

Seems like. Its partner, OpenAI, warned Microsoft that Bing Chat could create such interactions as it works with the GPT-4 version still in development. The Wall Street Journal reported, via anonymous sources, that OpenAI expressed concerns that Microsoft was moving too quickly to launch Bing Chat regarding these issues. These fears turned out to be very true.

The same article also claims that Microsoft has its own issues with OpenAI. According to the materials, some of Microsoft’s many divisions still cannot communicate with or work with OpenAI directly.

While Microsoft has indeed invested a lot of money in the company, OpenAI can license ChatGPT-4 to other companies to develop their own AI products. One such company is DuckDuckGo, a search engine that uses Microsoft’s Bing search API for some of its searches. In March, DuckDuckGo announced its own chatbot, DuckAssist, which will use OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.

However, the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft said it would increase the price of its API if DuckDuckGo chose DuckAssist. As a result, just weeks after the announcement, the search engine silently updated its blog post, “Unfortunately, DuckAssist is no longer available in DuckDuckGo Custom Search.”

So why doesn’t Microsoft buy OpenAI and take it completely under the company’s wing? There is currently no word on whether Microsoft has attempted to make such a deal. In a new interview with Wired this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella did not comment on whether the company is trying to buy OpenAI.