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Title    OpenAI and Microsoft Announce Extended, Multi-Billion-Dollar Partnership
Date    Wednesday January 25 2023, @12:16PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the *delete-humans*-*insert-AI* dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/01/24/1857234

Freeman writes:

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, DALL·E 2, and ChatGPT," wrote Microsoft.

Related:
Microsoft Announces 10,000 Layoffs, 5% of its Workforce

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Links
  1. "Freeman" - https://soylentnews.org/~Freeman/
  2. "announced" - https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partnership/
  3. "2019" - https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20703578/microsoft-openai-investment-partnership-1-billion-azure-artificial-general-intelligence-agi
  4. "rumors of a $10 billion investment" - https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10-billion-bet-on-chatgpt
  5. "Microsoft news release" - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/
  6. "Microsoft Announces 10,000 Layoffs, 5% of its Workforce" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/01/18/160230
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=58312
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