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Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership
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This announcement marks a pivotal moment in the commercialization of frontier AI, raising questions in the AI safety community about whether rapid deployment pressures conflict with adequate safety research timelines.
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Microsoft announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment extension of its partnership with OpenAI in January 2023, deepening collaboration on AI research and deployment. The deal includes integrating OpenAI's models into Microsoft products and Azure cloud infrastructure, positioning Microsoft as the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI's compute needs.
Key Points
- •Microsoft committed a new multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, extending their partnership beyond previous funding rounds.
- •Azure becomes the exclusive cloud platform for OpenAI's workloads, training, and product deployment.
- •Microsoft gains rights to deploy OpenAI models across its consumer and enterprise products, including Office and Bing.
- •The partnership frames AI development as a shared mission around 'responsible AI' and broad societal benefit.
- •This deal significantly accelerates the commercialization and scaling of frontier AI systems like GPT-4.
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Today, we are announcing the third phase of our long-term partnership with OpenAI through a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world.
This agreement follows our previous investments in 2019 and 2021. It [extends our ongoing collaboration](http://www.openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partnership) across AI supercomputing and research and enables each of us to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies.
- **Supercomputing at scale** – Microsoft will increase our investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research. We will also continue to build out Azure’s leading AI infrastructure to help customers build and deploy their AI applications on a global scale.
- **New AI-powered experiences** – Microsoft will deploy OpenAI’s models across our consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology. This includes Microsoft’s [Azure OpenAI Service](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits/), which empowers developers to build cutting-edge AI applications through direct access to OpenAI models backed by Azure’s trusted, enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure and tools.
- **Exclusive cloud provider** – As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, Azure will power all OpenAI workloads across research, products and API services.
“We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize AI as a new technology platform,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications.”
_“_ The past three years of our partnership have been great,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. “Microsoft shares our values and we are excited to continue our independent research and work toward creating advanced AI that benefits everyone.”
Since 2016, Microsoft has committed to building Azure into an AI supercomputer for the world, serving as the foundation of our vision to democratize AI as a platform. Through our initial investment and collaboration, Microsoft and OpenAI pushed the frontier of cloud supercomputing technology, announcing our [first top-5 supercomputer](https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/openai-azure-supercomputer/) in 2020, and subsequently c
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