Microsoft Pours $1 Billion Into OpenAI to Develop Human-Like AI

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to jointly build advanced artificial general intelligence on the Azure cloud platform. The partnership aims to tackle complex global challenges while making Microsoft OpenAI's exclusive commercial partner.

22 Jul 2019

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to build artificial intelligence capable of tackling highly complex tasks. Through this major partnership, the two companies plan to develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies and make Microsoft the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI.

The collaboration focuses on creating artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which goes beyond current AI by mastering multiple disciplines rather than just one specific problem. OpenAI and Microsoft state that this advanced technology works alongside humans to solve currently intractable global challenges like climate change, healthcare, and education.

Instead of creating its own consumer products to fund this research, OpenAI licenses its pre-AGI technologies directly to Microsoft as its preferred commercialization partner. The companies base this deep collaboration on shared principles regarding AI ethics and trust.

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