Microsoft has announced that its is investing $1 billion in Open AI, the company was founded back in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman.
The company has been researching and developing Artificial Intelligence, this new deal will see the two companies work together to develop a hardware an software platform within Microsoft Azure.
“The creation of AGI will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential to shape the trajectory of humanity,” said Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI. “Our mission is to ensure that AGI technology benefits all of humanity, and we’re working with Microsoft to build the supercomputing foundation on which we’ll build AGI. We believe it’s crucial that AGI is deployed safely and securely and that its economic benefits are widely distributed. We are excited about how deeply Microsoft shares this vision.”
“AI is one of the most transformative technologies of our time and has the potential to help solve many of our world’s most pressing challenges,” said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. “By bringing together OpenAI’s breakthrough technology with new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, our ambition is to democratize AI — while always keeping AI safety front and center — so everyone can benefit.”
You can find out more information about the deal between Microsoft And Open AI over at Microsoft’s website at the link below.
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