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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 25 2023, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the *delete-humans*-*insert-AI* dept.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/openai-and-microsoft-reaffirm-shared-quest-for-powerful-ai-with-new-investment/

On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a "multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment" from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 and 2021. While the two companies have not officially announced a dollar amount on the deal, the news follows rumors of a $10 billion investment that emerged two weeks ago.

[...] "The past three years of our partnership have been great," said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in a Microsoft news release. "Microsoft shares our values and we are excited to continue our independent research and work toward creating advanced AI that benefits everyone."

In particular, the two companies say they will work on supercomputing at scale to accelerate OpenAI's research, integrating OpenAI's technology into more Microsoft products and "digital experiences" and keeping Microsoft as OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider with Azure. "OpenAI has used this infrastructure to train its breakthrough models, which are now deployed in Azure to power category-defining AI products like GitHub Copilot, DALLĀ·E 2, and ChatGPT," wrote Microsoft.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by quietus on Wednesday January 25 2023, @12:55PM (5 children)

    by quietus (6328) on Wednesday January 25 2023, @12:55PM (#1288519) Journal

    It is only a matter of time for the integration of ChatGPT and Bing, and Google being attacked on its home turf. They should have seen this coming: Google Apps, in combination with Chrome, was a blatant attack on Microsoft's core business.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 25 2023, @02:49PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 25 2023, @02:49PM (#1288529) Journal

    Considering this is just another fresh installation of Cash from Microsoft. Google just wasn't quite expecting it to be ready so soon or possibly even viable at all.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday January 25 2023, @03:20PM

      by quietus (6328) on Wednesday January 25 2023, @03:20PM (#1288538) Journal

      I've got the impression Google lost the plot much earlier i.e. when they failed to either buy Github, or provide a decent alternative. They seem to have forgotten they're really a software company, where the way to prevail is to win the best developers, not the other way round.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2023, @04:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2023, @04:58PM (#1288551)

    Try this:

    Ask youself how much a gallon of water weighs. NO GOOGLE.
    Then ask google a simple question [google.com]. How reasonable does that look to you?

    Google's "smarts" got defeated by champion spammy bullshitters. ChatGPT could destroy search engines in general.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @02:13AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @02:13AM (#1288631)

      > how much a gallon of water weighs

      I'm old enough to remember that it's around 8 pounds so the answer will be something about 5 lbs. The Google results were bizarre for sure. When I'm looking for something definitive, I sometimes turn to a curated source of data, for example, Wolfram|Alpha -- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+gallons+is+40+lbs+of+water [wolframalpha.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @02:16AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @02:16AM (#1288632)

        crap!
        > something about 5 lbs.
        something about 5 gallons!!