Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2. It consists of a multi-million dollar investment over several years to integrate AI into Microsoft tools.
A few days before, we learned that Microsoft would like to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, in particular to integrate ChatGPT into Bing. Now confirmed by the company, it will invest several billion dollars in the coming years in artificial intelligence. And this, even if the revelations of theHour report that workers in Kenya have been exploited to make ChatGPT work better.
Microsoft Accelerates: Billions of Dollars for OpenAI
In a blog post, Microsoft announces a new phase of its partnership with OpenAI.”through a multi-year investment of billions of dollars to accelerate advances in AI“. The objective is clear: to become a leader in the artificial intelligence market, but not only on the user side. Microsoft is not in its first attempt with OpenAI: it had already invested in 2019 and 2021.
Microsoft says it wants to increaseits investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s innovative independent AI research.Beyond simply helping OpenAI develop, the firm also wants to gain market share in the AI infrastructure offered by Azure, its Cloud Computing. It sells subscriptions to developers to use its servers, which can be pre-configured to train AI.
Also, Azure already provides OpenAI exclusively in computing power and will continue to do so: this refers to research, provision of API products and services.
ChatGPT could land on Bing
Along with more exciting announcements for digital companies and AI market analysts, there have been some that will have concrete consequences for the general public. Microsoft added that it wanted “implement OpenAI models in its consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences based on OpenAI technology.If that includes Azure, one might also think that Microsoft wants to integrate GPT-3 into other services.
Rumors indicate that ChatGPT could reach Bing in the coming months, enough to compete with the Google search engine, the undisputed leader in the matter, clearly standing out.
The Microsoft 365 suite could also benefit from ChatGPT, think of Word, PowerPoint or Outlook. With an interface overhaul, we could be entitled to an automatic text generation tool, to write an email, a dissertation or a meeting report.
Other Microsoft projects in artificial intelligence
Automatic text generation isn’t the only piece of AI Microsoft is working on. The firm presented a few months ago an application based on Dall-E 2 in Microsoft Designer software, dedicated to graphic design.
Microsoft also revealed the results of its research with a tool called Vall-E: it can copy any voice from three seconds of recording. What would potentially revolutionize the creation of content, but also thefake deep.
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