Microsoft introduced Monday it has prolonged its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT and Dall-E. The corporate mentioned in a weblog submit that this marks the start of the third section of a multi-year, multi-billion greenback funding.
“On this subsequent section of our partnership, builders and organizations throughout industries may have entry to one of the best AI infrastructure, fashions, and toolchain with Azure to construct and run their purposes,” Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella wrote.
Microsoft mentioned it would enhance its investments within the improvement and deployment of supercomputing methods to help OpenAI’s analysis. Microsoft additionally mentioned it would deploy OpenAI’s fashions throughout its client and enterprise merchandise.
“We’re excited to proceed our unbiased analysis and work towards creating superior AI that advantages everybody,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, mentioned, in accordance with Microsoft.
OpenAI wrote in a separate weblog submit Monday that regardless of this funding it would stay a capped-profit firm.
“This multi-year, multi-billion greenback funding from Microsoft… will permit us to proceed our unbiased analysis and develop AI that’s more and more protected, helpful, and highly effective,” OpenAI wrote.
Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership started in 2016 when OpenAI agreed to make use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing software program to run its synthetic intelligence experiments. Then in 2019 Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI to collectively develop new supercomputing tech.
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