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It's part of their 2019 agreement for taking $1B in funding >Multiyear partnership ... and an investment of $1 billion from Microsoft... > Microsoft and OpenA
by propogandist 6y ago
It's part of their 2019 agreement for taking $1B in funding
>Multiyear partnership ... and an investment of $1 billion from Microsoft...
> Microsoft and OpenAI will jointly build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies
> OpenAI will port its services to run on Microsoft Azure, which it will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence
>> Microsoft will become OpenAI’s preferred partner for commercializing new AI technologies
https://news.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/openai-forms-exclusive-computing-partnership-with-microsoft-to-build-new-azure-ai-supercomputing-technologies/ https://news.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/openai-forms-exclusive...
- jonplackett 6y agoFinancially it kinda makes sense. But isn’t this contrary to the main reason for OpenAI’s existence - to be... open?