Recently, according to Reuters, citing Semafor sources, Microsoft is planning to invest another $10 billion in OpenAI. If the cooperation is reached, Microsoft will hold a 49% stake in OpenAI. At the same time, this also boosted the valuation of OpenAI, which has successively developed GPT-3 and ChatGPT, to reach nearly 30 billion US dollars.
Of course, so far, Microsoft and OpenAI have not officially responded to this, but we can get a glimpse of its possibility from a Twitter from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
A few days ago, Nat Friedman praised the vision of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Twitter. Before GPT-3 became famous, he invested $1 billion in OpenAI with insight, and attached OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nadella at the time. group photo. As a result, many people have started a lot of discussions around "Microsoft + OpenAI vs Google + DeepMind".
Back in 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI to jointly develop the new Azure AI supercomputing technology. At the same time, OpenAI also transferred its development services to run on Microsoft Azure.
The cooperation between Microsoft and OpenAI has quickly yielded results. Among them, GitHub Copilot is particularly familiar to developers. Copilot is jointly developed by GitHub and OpenAI. It will be a technical preview on VS Code in 2021 and will officially form a subscription service in 2022.
At last year's Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that it will integrate DALL-E developed by OpenAI into Bing (Bing), that is, Bing Image Creator, which allows users to directly generate pictures with AI.
After the launch of ChatGPT, Bing will further harvest ChatGPT. A few days ago, according to The Information and other reports, Microsoft may apply ChatGPT in Bing before March 2023, using artificial intelligence to answer some search queries.
OpenAI's penetration of Microsoft's product line does not stop there. Microsoft's mature Office productivity suites such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook will integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT service. As a result, many developers joked about it as OfficeGPT. And if ChatGPT infiltrates Office, many users are also worried about whether Clippy, which has been active in Office in the past, will make a comeback.
