Power Struggle at OpenAI: Chinese and American AI Entrepreneurs Face Profitability Pressures


OpenAI has partnered with five major companies, including AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, to launch the Multi-Path Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol, aimed at addressing network latency and failure issues in large-scale AI training. The protocol has been open-sourced through the Open Compute Project (OCP) and is driving a shift from a three-tier architecture to a two-tier design, breaking single points of failure and improving training stability and efficiency.
OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman revealed that the company plans to invest up to 50 billion dollars before 2026 to enhance computing resources, in response to the surge in demand for computing power for training and inference of large AI models. This investment has grown thousands of times compared to around 30 million dollars in 2017, marking the transition of generative AI from experimental stages to large-scale commercialization.
In the legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, CEO Brockman's private diary was publicly disclosed in court, forcing him to read excerpts. Musk's team used this to argue OpenAI deviated from its nonprofit mission to pursue personal wealth. Brockman painfully stressed the diary's privacy, highlighting the impact of legal battles on personal privacy.....
On May 6, OpenAI, in collaboration with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia, released the Multi-path Reliable Connection (MRC) open network protocol. Designed to address efficiency bottlenecks in ultra-large-scale AI clusters, the protocol optimizes large AI training cluster performance, overcoming previous network constraints in model training. This marks a key milestone in enhancing AI cluster performance.....
In May 2026 court testimony, OpenAI President Brockman revealed that during the company's 2017 transition, Musk demanded absolute control and sought to merge OpenAI into Tesla's AI system. After being rejected, strategic disagreements arose, leading to subsequent legal disputes.....