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Microsoft has announced it was investing $1 billion in OpenAI to “support the building of artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits.”
We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider—so we’ll be working hard together to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. – Open AI
Publishing the announcement on its official blog, OpenAI explained how the new partnership is going to work: AI system building today involves a lot of manual engineering for each well-defined task.
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