Microsoft announces that it has invested hundreds of billions of yen in OpenAI and signed a long-term partnership

Microsoft invests billions of dollars (hundreds of billions of yen) in AI research group OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT for interactive AI and DALL E 2 for image generation AI, and forms a long-term partnership That was announced on January 23, 2023. This is Microsoft's third investment in OpenAI following 2019 and 2021.

Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/

OpenAI and Microsoft Extend Partnership
https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partnership/

Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership in a 'multibillion dollar investment' - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/23/23567448/microsoft-openai-partnership-extension-ai

How Microsoft's Stumbles Led to Its OpenAI Alliance — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsofts-stumbles-led-to-its-openai-alliance

It was reported that Microsoft may invest $ 10 billion (about 1.3 trillion yen) in OpenAI, but on January 23, 2023 local time, billions of dollars It was announced that a large investment was made.

Microsoft is considering investing $ 10 billion to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into Bing and Office - GIGAZINE

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, ``Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI based on the common philosophy of promoting cutting-edge AI research responsibly and widely disseminating AI as a new technology platform.'' I'm here. By investing in the development and deployment of supercomputing systems, Microsoft will support OpenAI research and maintain its position as OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider.

So far, Mr. Nadella has been concerned that Microsoft has been lagging behind rival companies such as Google and Apple in incorporating AI into its products.

According to Nadella, Microsoft envisions further commercializing Azure OpenAI provided by OpenAI, saying, 'Through this partnership, developers and organizations across a variety of industries will find the optimal AI infrastructure using Azure OpenAI. , models, tools, etc.'

In addition, it is reported that Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI and is working to integrate ChatGPT into the search engine Bing and deploy it.

It is reported that Microsoft plans to deploy a new function using the super powerful chat AI ``ChatGPT'' with the search engine Bing-GIGAZINE

'Microsoft shares our values and is committed to continuing independent research and working to create advanced AI that can benefit everyone,' said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. I'm excited to be able to do it.'