In March 2020, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder and longtime CEO, officially left the company when he stepped down as one of its board members. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gates left the board because of an investigation into an alleged personal relationship. that he had with a Microsoft employee in 2000. A spokesman for Gates denied at the time that the investigation was the reason for his resignation from Microsoft.

However, even though Gates has stated that he is going to spend more time on his philanthropic efforts, a new report from Business InsiderUsing unnamed sources, says gates has been working in stealth mode for Microsoft for some time.

Indeed, the article claims that Gates was one of the main forces behind Microsoft’s current partnership with OpenAI. The article claims that Gates has been holding meetings with OpenAI since 2016. It also claims that in 2022, Gates challenged OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to create a large language model that could pass the advanced location biology test.

The report says that in August 2022, Altman showed Gates and current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a demonstration at Gates’ home where a version of GPT-4 did indeed pass this test in biology. It added:

The demo prompted Gates to write another memo — what a former executive called “the memo” — detailing how Microsoft should use GPT-4. Gates emphasized that the large language model, trained on the entire public Internet, could finally usher in the era of personal agents.

The report said that after Gates’ demo and memo, Nadella held a company meeting where he asked his teams to incorporate artificial intelligence into many of its software products and services.

Gates is still holding meetings with several senior executives at Microsoft to review the company’s project developments, Gates is supposed to help both in recruiting new executives and in trying to keep Microsoft’s current team members. It would show that Gates may not be an official employee but he still holds a lot of power in Redmond,