MoneyThe story, in brief
Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI
$1B. That's what Microsoft just committed to OpenAI to build AGI together.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Microsoft becomes OpenAI's exclusive cloud infrastructure partner and commits $1B in strategic investment, signaling major bets on AGI development and Azure's competitive positioning in large-scale AI systems.
The key facts
5 to knowMicrosoft invests $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft becomes OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider
Partnership to develop hardware and software platform on Azure
Joint development of Azure AI supercomputing technologies
Published July 22, 2019
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Publisher excerpt: 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…