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This press release[^1] indicated MS does intend to provide infrastructure, including investing in providing more supercomputer infra specifically for openai: >
by steve_adams_86 4y ago
This press release[^1] indicated MS does intend to provide infrastructure, including investing in providing more supercomputer infra specifically for openai:
> Microsoft will increase our investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research.
It isn’t clear what “provide” means exactly (is it free? At cost?) but I suspect there are guarantees of availability as well as discounts involved to ease operating costs.
[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...
- andrewstuart 4y agoMicrosoft Azure has had severe GPU shortages for a long while now. I wonder if there’s a connection.