07-23-2019, 01:25 AM
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI
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<p><span>Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in </span><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/11/sam-altman-elon-musk-peter-thiel-and-others-commit-1b-to-nonprofit-artificial-research-lab-openai/">OpenAI</a><span>, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI with the capacity to learn any intellectual task that a human can — with “widely distributed” economic benefits.<br />Source: <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-to-develop-ai-technologies-on-azure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Venture Beat</a></span></p>
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<p><span>Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in </span><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/11/sam-altman-elon-musk-peter-thiel-and-others-commit-1b-to-nonprofit-artificial-research-lab-openai/">OpenAI</a><span>, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI with the capacity to learn any intellectual task that a human can — with “widely distributed” economic benefits.<br />Source: <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-to-develop-ai-technologies-on-azure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Venture Beat</a></span></p>
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