Microsoft to build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies with US$1B investment in OpenAI

SAN FRANCISCO and REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft and OpenAI, announced today what could be a formidable new partnership geard towards building secure, trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence (AI).The two organizations have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure's capabilities in large-scale AI systems and through this multi-year agreement, the companies will accelerate breakthroughs in AI and power OpenAI's efforts to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). “The resulting enhancements to the Azure platform will also help developers build the next generation of AI applications,” reads the press release.An investment of US$1 billion from Microsoft will focus on building a platform that OpenAI...