Microsoft Invests in OpenAI to Support AGI Development

Published:Jul 22, 2019 07:00
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OpenAI News

Analysis

This news article highlights a significant investment and partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, focusing on the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The core of the announcement is Microsoft's financial commitment and the strategic collaboration to build a scalable platform within Microsoft Azure. The article emphasizes the shared goal of creating AGI with broad economic benefits and the exclusive cloud provider relationship.

Reference

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building 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.