Microsoft has announced it will invest billions of dollars in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company. This investment aims to strengthen the collaboration between the two companies in the development of advanced AI technologies. But what about the news as the company announced it was laying off more than 5% of its workforce?
Billions for an AI?
You’ve no doubt heard about OpenAI in the past few days. In fact, it’s the company behind the excellent ChatGPT and Dall-E 2. These two artificial intelligences allow them to generate completely new texts and images from just a few words. Additionally, high school students have understood this and are already using ChatGPT to cheat in class.
In addition to this financial investment, Microsoft and OpenAI will work together to integrate AI technologies into Microsoft products and services such as Azure and other cloud services. This makes it easier for developers and companies to access these advanced technologies to create innovative applications and services.
To do what?
AI has emerged as one of the most important areas of technology in recent years, with applications in many industries including healthcare, finance, robotics and transportation. This collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI will allow the two companies to further advance in these areas by offering tools and technologies for the different branches of Microsoft.
Additionally, this investment will allow OpenAI to continue funding its AI research, including in the areas of machine learning, natural language understanding, and robotics. In summary, Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI is an important step. It could give developers and companies access to a particularly ingenious tool that may one day translate video games in real time or even create entirely new experiences. The field of possibilities is still huge.
Also, to show you how OpenAI was already able to adapt three years ago, here is a nice video that explains the evolution of this artificial intelligence.
