Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI

OpenAI Blog · 6 years ago

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI to support the development of artificial general intelligence with distributed economic benefits. The companies will partner to build a hardware and software platform on Microsoft Azure specifically designed to scale toward AGI, with Microsoft becoming OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider. Microsoft will gain a competitive advantage in cloud AI infrastructure while OpenAI secures dedicated computing resources for its research.