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Microsoft seemed like an obvious early winner in AI: The company became OpenAI’s first major corporate backer through a $1 billion investment in 2019, aligning itself early on with one of the industry’s juggernauts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

In a lengthy essay last weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, a major backer of OpenAI, detailed how he thinks companies can fight against AI labs capturing the economic returns of entire industries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

A backer of the prime minister said, when Burnham had faced tough questions in the by-election campaign, "he's fallen apart".

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

It was not Su’s only foray into the space industry; his company has been a high-profile backer of some of SpaceX’s Chinese competitors.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

However, Liang has been selective in choosing backers to ensure that commercial interests don’t interfere with DeepSeek’s long-term push in frontier AI research, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

However, Moraff and other Platner backers seem to have ended their assessment there.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

Dias said that backers of noncitizen voting need to build a broad coalition — grassroots organizations, election officials, lawyers for the city — before taking the proposal to voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

Among the tax credit’s other prominent backers are two Northwest Democrats on the Senate Committee on Finance, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Maria Cantwell of Washington.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

In the United States as in Europe, many of Darwin’s most ardent backers were successful tradespeople whose hobby was butterfly or beetle collecting.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann