Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. At a White House press conference,

The software giant was previously the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI and now retains right of first refusal.

OpenAI announced a new joint venture named The Stargate Project which aims to build a number of data centers for AI in the U.S.