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Is Microsoft the biggest investor in OpenAI? I wonder what the breakdown is in getting the ability to leverage technology of a company you don't outright own bu
by lordleft 4y ago
Is Microsoft the biggest investor in OpenAI? I wonder what the breakdown is in getting the ability to leverage technology of a company you don't outright own but have heavily supported.
- dariusj18 4y agoThey licensed GPT3 exclusively 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-...
- esskay 4y agoI'd assume they are. IIRC they are giving free compute to the project, and those models cost an absolute fortune to train.
- andybak 4y agoThis isn't Stable Diffusion. It's closer to Karlo/Dall-E from my brief tests. EDIT - it's handling some Imagen prompts better than Dall-E. This is interesting.
- andybak 4y agoSo. I was totally wrong. It’s just Dall-e. confirmation bias in action…
- hiddencost 4y agoPragmatically, OpenAI was a mechanism for Microsoft to try risky things with AI without incurring the liability and reputational risk of doing it themselves. They became very conservative after Tay.