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| Microsoft officially announces steps to change the future of artificial intelligence |
Microsoft today officially announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment deal in the artificial intelligence technology (OpenAI) company behind popular chatbot (ChatGPT).
The companies did not disclose specific financial terms of the deal, but a person familiar with the matter told the New York Times earlier this month that Microsoft will invest $10 billion in OpenAI.
Microsoft's relationship with (OpenAI)
Today announcement comes after Microsoft has already invested more than $3 billion in OpenAI, a new deal that clearly demonstrates the importance of the technology it's developing to Microsoft's future, especially as it competes with other big tech companies. Examples: Google, Meta, and Apple.
With funding from Microsoft and OpenAI to develop artificial intelligence, the two companies hope to stay at the forefront of generative AI, which is technology capable of creating text, images, and other media based on brief instructions.
After its surprise launch in late November, chatbots (ChatGPT) have come to symbolize a new wave of more powerful artificial intelligence.
The technologies, the culmination of more than a decade of research from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta, are poised to redesign everything from online search engines like Google and Bing to desktop publishing, image, and graphics software like Photoshop.
The deal comes after Microsoft announced last week that it had begun laying off more than 10,000 employees. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last week that the layoffs will allow the company to refocus on other priorities, such as artificial intelligence, which he sees as the "next big technological wave" in computing.
Announcing the deal on Monday, Nadella said the next phase of the partnership with (OpenAI) will focus on bringing OpenAI-developed tools to market, saying: “Developers and organizations from all industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models and tools.” ".
Genesis (Open AI)
It is worth noting that a small group of entrepreneurs and researchers in the field of artificial intelligence such as Sam Altman, billionaire Elon Musk and Ilya Steskiver, who are considered one of the most important researchers in the past decade, founded (OpenAI) as a non-profit organization in 2015, but after Musk's departure, Altman decided Converted into a for-profit company in 2018 with the aim of making enough money to continue research.
In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion, followed by another $2 billion in subsequent years, bringing the total investment to $3 billion. These investments include paying for the massive amounts of computing power required to create this generative AI.
In 2020, OpenAI reached a milestone with the release of an artificial intelligence (GPT-3) model capable of self-generating text including: tweets, blog posts, news articles and even code. Last year, the company introduced its new model (DALL-E) that allows anyone to create images simply by providing descriptive text for the image they want to display.
Based on the (CPT-3) model, the company launched a chatbot (ChatGPT) at the end of last year and everyone was impressed with its capabilities, so that more than a million people viewed it in the first days of its launch. the exam.
Microsoft introduces (GPT-3), (DALL-E), and other (OpenAI) technologies in its products. Last week it expanded the availability of several other OpenAI services to Azure cloud service customers, and said that (ChatGPT) will be available soon.