It betanews reports, Microsoft is investing one billion US dollars to establish important partnerships with OpenAI, this partnership will enable Microsoft to develop new and OpenAI Azure AI supercomputing technology, and Microsoft will be the only cloud provider OpenAI . Microsoft said it is committed to build a platform to create new artificial intelligence technology, and commitment AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) of.
OpenAI said that, over the years, AI has been developed in many areas, AGI is the next frontier:
AGI will be a system that will be a field of study to master the world expert level, and have more than anyone else in the field, like a Curie, Turing and Bach's skills combine tools. AGI working on a question to see the connections between different disciplines, which no one can see. AGI We hope to cooperate with people, solve multidisciplinary problems currently intractable, including climate change, affordable and quality health care and individualized education and other global challenges. We think it's affecting everyone should be given freedom to pursue their economic think the most rewarding thing, to create new opportunities for us can not imagine life today.
Microsoft believes OpenAI will become its new artificial intelligence technology commercialization partner of choice, Microsoft said:
The two companies will focus on the establishment of a scale unprecedented in the Azure computing platform that will run more training and advanced artificial intelligence model, including hardware-based technology Microsoft supercomputing technology, and the two companies in terms of ethics and trust common principles. This will lay the foundation for the implementation progress of artificial intelligence in a safe, reliable and trustworthy manner, also chose a collaboration of the key reasons.
In announcing this investment and partnership, OpenAI said:
We are working to develop the hardware and software of Microsoft Azure platform will be extended to AGI. We will jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technology, Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud computing providers, so we will work together to further expand Microsoft Azure capabilities in large-scale artificial intelligence systems.
In fact, Azure is not OpenAI new platform, as early as 2016, OpenAI began to use Azure for large-scale AI experiment.