The artificial intelligence researcher is partnering Microsoft to enhnace the latter's Azure platform, and has netted $1bn from the corporate in return.
Software provider Microsoft agreed on Monday to invest $1bn in US-based artificial intelligence (AI) research technology provider OpenAI in a bid to enhance its own work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology.
Founded in 2015 and overseen by a non-profit organisation, OpenAI is working on research that is intended to harness AI in responsible ways.
The company is most focused on AGI, which could hypothetically combine extremely high-level knowledge of many fields to devise solutions to complex problems hitherto unseen.
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