Microsoft will increase its OpenAI investment as the technological race intensifies
After its stunning November debut, ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions in very well English, foreshadowed a stronger AI wave.
Microsoft invested 'multi years, billions of dollars' in OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence research organisation that built the ChatGPT online chatbot, on Monday.
Microsoft will give OpenAI $10 billion, according to a source familiar with the deal.
Microsoft's new deal emphasises OpenAI's importance to its future and competitiveness with Google, Meta, and Apple. Microsoft invested almost $3 billion in OpenAI.
With Microsoft's deep finances and OpenAI's cutting-edge AI, the companies aim to lead spontaneous artificial intelligence, which can generate text, graphics, and other content from quick instructions.
After its surprise November introduction, ChatGPT, a chatbot that replies in succinct, punctuated text, became famous. It symbolised a stronger AI wave.
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OpenAI, Google, and Meta's decade-old technologies will change everything from Google Search and Microsoft Bing to Photoshop.
Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs last week. Severance, rental agreement, and 'modifications to our hardware portfolio' will cost $1.2 billion.
Last week, CEO Satya Nadella said the changes will let the corporation concentrate on 'the next significant wave of computing,' AI.
Nadella announced Monday that developers and organisations from diverse industries will have access to the greatest AI infrastructure, models, and tool chain. The partnership with OpenAI will focus on this.
Elon Musk, the millionaire CEO of Tesla, Sam Altman, the president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, and Ilya Sutskever, one of the most influential scholars of the past decade, created OpenAI in 2015.
They founded a nonprofit lab. After Musk left in 2018, Altman rebuilt OpenAI as a for-profit organisation to raise research funds.
Microsoft invested $1 billion a year later and $2 billion secretly over the next five years. OpenAI developed its famous generative AI tools with these monies.
OpenAI is also negotiating a 'tender offer' to sell its shares. Two sources said this might be $300 million and value the company at $29 billion, depending on how many employees sell their shares.
OpenAI's groundbreaking 2020 AI system GPT-3 may write news stories, blog entries, tweets, and computer code. Last year, DALL-E was introduced, allowing anyone to generate photorealistic photos by describing them.
ChatGPT, which used GPT-3 technology, showed the public its possibilities.
Over a million people used the chatbot's first few days to create poems, term papers, trivia questions, and clarify topics.
Microsoft products use GPT-3, DALL-E, and other OpenAI technologies. Microsoft-owned GitHub, a popular programming website, offers Copilot, a tool that can automatically produce code snippets.
Microsoft's growth has slowed since summer, and Wall Street experts expect its next financial figures to show its lowest growth since 2016. The corporation generates significant cash and earnings. Investors have received quarterly dividends and a $60 billion share repurchase programme authorised by the board in 2021.
Microsoft and OpenAI want more than better chatbots and programming assistance.
OpenAI wanted to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) that could do anything a human brain could. In 2019, Nadella compared OpenAI's original relationship with Microsoft to the company's aim of developing a quantum computer, which would be tenfold faster than current computers. He called it an ambitious objective that a company like Microsoft should pursue.
'I think you need these high-ambition North Stars,' he said.
Researchers may struggle to learn that. Many believe ChatGPT can help attain this difficult goal.
Microsoft can develop its business, raise revenue, and compete with Google and Meta, which are also addressing AI breakthroughs.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai ordered a 'code red,' disrupting plans and accelerating AI development. Google plans to launch more than 20 products and a chatbot-enabled search engine this year, according to a New York Times slide presentation and two unnamed sources.
AI has several downsides. They manufacture propaganda, hate speech, and pictures that degrade women and people of colour.
Microsoft, Google, Meta, and other companies have been cautious to release many of these technologies because they could damage their powerful brands. Five years ago, Microsoft introduced chatbot Tay. After user concerns, Tay was taken down.
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