i.e. they are potentially building in some redundancy, whether that's with respect to OpenAI (more likely in my opinion, accounting for the case where OpenAI's new board gets ideas about trying to serve humanity's best interests), or with respect to their research lab in China (less likely in my opinion)
Slight update upwards on "Yes" with Microsoft announcing its new partnership with Mistral: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure/
i.e. they are potentially building in some redundancy, whether that's with respect to OpenAI (more likely in my opinion, accounting for the case where OpenAI's new board gets ideas about trying to serve humanity's best interests), or with respect to their research lab in China (less likely in my opinion)