OpenAI Blog · Jul 22, 2019
Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI
Reviewed by Errol Vogt, Site support technician & online learning analyst · original summary · editorial policy
Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI. Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider—so we’ll be working hard together to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. This update is relevant for small-office operators tracking changes in their tools.
Operator takeaway: For operators: review whether 'Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI' affects your current setup before relying on it in production.
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