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Just so you know, for GPT-3, Microsoft is going to be the exclusive licensee of the API: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-ope
by turdnagel 6y ago
Just so you know, for GPT-3, Microsoft is going to be the exclusive licensee of the API: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-...
- Jack000 6y agoMy understanding is that the exclusivity is with regard to the code, the API will still be offered to the public.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- part1of2 6y agoUm, as an outside observer, what is Open about this OpenAI GPT-3 then if they’re selling exclusive rights?
- sillysaurusx 6y agoThey were forced to give Microsoft exclusive access, because it was one of the terms of Microsoft's billion-dollar cloud credit investment. But you can't pay employees with cloud credits, so time will tell whether it was a correct decision. (It probably was. And I exaggerate slightly; the investment included a substantial sum of real dollars too. But most people see that billion dollar investment and think it's all dollars, when in fact it was largely credits.)
- part1of2 6y agoIs that only for GPT-3? Or for everything they produce?
- sillysaurusx 6y agoI don't know for certain, but it was probably everything. The investment was vital.
- kerng 6y agoThe code, not api