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Microsoft’s hiring of ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday marks one other twist within the seven-year-old partnership between the US big and the startup that created ChatGPT.
Right here a key moments within the historical past of their partnership:
Based as a non-profit
OpenAI is based in 2015 by entrepreneurs and buyers, together with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Tesla chief Elon Musk.
It’s established as a not-for-profit organisation that publishes open supply analysis and software program accessible to all.
Groups up with Microsoft
Musk quits the undertaking in 2018 following clashes with the board of administrators.
Altman transforms OpenAI right into a “capped revenue” firm and seeks new buyers.
Microsoft injects $1 billion
In 2019, Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI, largely within the type of computing credit, in alternate for a task sooner or later commercialisation of its applied sciences.
The objective for Microsoft is to develop its cloud providing, the place it competes with Google (Alphabet) and Amazon.
GPT-3 launched
OpenAI launches GPT-3 in 2020, the third model of its large-scale language mannequin, educated on large volumes of textual content scraped from the web by Microsoft’s computing infrastructure.
This mannequin is much extra highly effective than its opponents, with some 175 billion parameters.
Supercomputer trains AI
Microsoft in 2020 says it has constructed a supercomputer solely designed to coach giant OpenAI fashions.
Its cloud community, Azure, can now make these techniques accessible to Microsoft clients.
AI-generated pictures
OpenAI in 2021 says it has developed DALL-E, an AI mannequin able to producing pictures when supplied with descriptions.
ChatGPT goes public
OpenAI achieves worldwide consideration with the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, a language mannequin open to the general public, initially accessible freed from cost.
Microsoft reportedly seeks stake
In January 2023, Microsoft pronounces “an funding of a number of billion {dollars} over a number of years” — $10 billion, based on US media.
It says it’s “investing within the improvement of specialized supercomputer techniques” for its partnership with OpenAI, however makes no point out of buying a stake in its capital.
In line with US media, Microsoft had sought to purchase 49 % of OpenAI, in a proposal that valued it at $29 billion.
Microsoft integrates GPT-4 into merchandise
In March 2023, Microsoft says it’s integrating the GPT-4 model of OpenAI into its client merchandise equivalent to search engine Bing, Outlook electronic mail and Workplace suite (Phrase, Excel), however will cost customers additional.
Microsoft not knowledgeable of dismissal
Microsoft will not be notified of the OpenAI board’s resolution on Friday to dismiss Sam Altman, based on US press experiences.
After attempting over the weekend to get him reinstated, the group pronounces that it’s hiring him and co-founder Greg Brockman.
The latter counsel that they are going to proceed to create AI merchandise at Microsoft, and Brockman pronounces the recruitment of a number of key OpenAI managers for these initiatives.
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