India, Jan. 29 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared an image with his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella on X and announced that the next phase of partnership between the two firms is going to be 'much better' than ever before.

"next phase of the msft x oai partnership is gonna be much better than anyone is ready for!!"

He did not share any further details about the partnership.

The partnership between the two firms assumes significance at a time when the rise in China's DeepSeek AI bot has hit the tech firms in the USA.

The Chinese AI bot sent ripples across the tech world became the top AI application on Apple's iPhone App Store recently.

The capabilities of the app drew comparison with Open AI's ChatGPT.

However, it operated with few...