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,

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.

Under the Trump administration, OpenAI and other members of the tech sector are making a push to establish AI dominance in the U.S.