Microsoft continues its partnership with OpenAI, developers of ChatGPT, through a new multi-billion dollar multi-year investment to accelerate the development of AI technology.

This move builds on previous investments by Microsoft in 2019 and 2021 and allows both companies to independently leverage the advanced AI technology they are developing together.

One of the main goals of this partnership is to democratize AI and make it accessible to everyone. Microsoft intends to achieve this goal in three ways:

• Supercomputing at scale: Microsoft will invest more resources in the development and use of specialized supercomputers to accelerate OpenAI research.
• New AI experiences: Microsoft will use OpenAI’s models in its consumer and enterprise products and use OpenAI’s technology to create new digital experiences.
• exclusivity: Microsoft Azure will be the company’s only cloud provider to support all OpenAI workloads.

Regardless, since its inception in 2016, Microsoft has been working to make Azure an AI supercomputer for everyone. Together, Microsoft and OpenAI are one step closer to realizing this vision.

The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has already produced impressive results, including the development of GPT-3, one of the most advanced natural language processing models to date.

This new investment ensures companies can continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

In a tweet, Microsoft CEO Satay Nadella says the company will continue its “safe and responsible” mission:

In this next phase of our partnership with @OpenAI, we will provide the best AI infrastructure, models and toolchain for customers to build and run their applications safely and responsibly on Azure. https://t.co/hX48N3vPv8

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 23, 2023

Interestingly, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was not mentioned in the announcement, despite rumors that it will soon be adding chatbot capabilities, possibly as early as March.

The Information, the source that originally reported the rumor, previously stated that Microsoft plans to incorporate OpenAI’s technology into its current software. Today’s official statement from Microsoft confirms that this is indeed the case.

This supports the notion that Bing may soon use ChatGPT to provide search results.

With the recent news that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have given the green light to integrate chatbot technology into Google, a competition is brewing to see which company will be the first to bring this feature to market .

source:Microsoft

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