Microsoft to invest billions of dollars into OpenAI
Microsoft just announced an extended partnership with OpenAI.
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Microsoft just announced an extended partnership with OpenAI. The multibillion dollar deal sees Azure be the exclusive cloud provider of OpenAI. Microsoft will deploy OpenAI technology across its consumer and enterprise products, including Azure OpenAI service, as part of the deal. Microsoft will also increase its investment into supercomputing systems to help improve OpenAI. Microsoft did not share how much it plans to invest as part of its deal, apart from saying “multibillion dollar investment.”
“We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize AI as a new technology platform,” said Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. “In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications.”
Rumors emerged earlier this month thatMicrosoft planned to invest $10 billion into OpenAI. As part of that reported deal, Microsoft would obtain a 49% stake in the AI company. The tech giant did not specify the terms of its extended partnership with OpenAI today.
Nadella recently shared thatall Microsoft products would have AI toolsbuilt into them in the future. The company also made its Azure OpenAI service generally available last week.
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Microsoft highlighted the following aspects of the partnership in itsannouncement post:
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