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Microsoft Extends Its Partnership with OpenAI, Including Billions More Dollars of Investments

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Microsoft Extends Its Partnership with OpenAI, Including Billions More Dollars of Investments

OpenAI and Microsoft yesterday announced the third phase of their long-term partnership through Microsoft’s multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world.

In pursuit of the mission to ensure advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI remains a capped-profit company and is governed by the OpenAI non-profit. This structure allows them to raise the capital they need to fulfill their mission without sacrificing the core beliefs about broadly sharing benefits and the need to prioritize safety.

This agreement follows Microsoft’s previous investments in 2019 and 2021 and extends an ongoing collaboration across AI supercomputing and research and enables each of the two companies to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies.

Supercomputing at scale – Microsoft will increase its investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s groundbreaking independent AI research. The tech giant 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 its consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology. This includes Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, 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.

“The past three years of our partnership have been great. Microsoft shares our values, and we are excited to continue our independent research and work toward creating advanced AI that benefits everyone.”

Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI

“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. In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and tool chain with Azure to build and run their applications.”

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft