This multi-billion dollar, multi-year investment by Microsoft follows its previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow us to continue our independent research and develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful.
In pursuit of our mission to ensure that advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI remains a limited profit company and is governed by the non-profit organization OpenAI. This structure allows us to raise the capital we need to accomplish our mission without sacrificing our core beliefs about broad profit sharing and the need to prioritize security.
Microsoft shares this vision and our values, and our partnership is critical to our progress.
- We have worked together to create several supercomputing systems powered by Azure, which we use to train all of our models. Designing Azure’s unique architecture has been crucial to delivering best-in-class performance and scalability for our AI inference and training workloads. Microsoft will increase its investment in these systems to accelerate our independent research, and Azure will continue to be the exclusive cloud provider for all OpenAI workloads in our research, APIs, and products.
- Learning from real-world use, and incorporating those lessons, is a critical part of developing powerful AI systems that are safe and useful. Scaling that use also ensures that the benefits of AI can be widely distributed. Therefore, we have partnered with Microsoft to implement our technology through our API and the Azure Open AI Service—allowing companies and developers to build on GPT, DALL·E and Codex. We’ve also worked together to embed OpenAI technology into applications like GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Designer.
- In an effort to build and deploy secure AI systems, our teams collaborate regularly to review and synthesize shared lessons and use them to inform iterative updates to our systems, future research, and best practices for the use of these powerful AI systems across the industry. industry.
We look forward to continuing the collaboration and building on this progress with Microsoft.
