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Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and ‘colleagues’ joins Microsoft to lead Advanced AI Research::Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a "new advanced AI research team," the software conglomerate's chief Satya Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, Satya Nadella said.

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[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Likely continue the partnership while they build up, but I have a feeling the amount of investment dollars from Microsoft and special Azure pricing are going to change quite a bit it for OpenAI in the very near future.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It just seems so integrated with Bing at this point. I realize it could be replaced, but that sounds like a huge undertaking and not especially cost-effective, but I'm not in the industry, so that's just my lay observation.

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

They've committed to investing $10B into OpenAI. The engineering cost of swapping out the Bing integration wouldn't even register.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The upside for Microsoft is worth it though. They wouldn't be beholden to OpenAI for LLM technology if they completely replace that with their own in house AI.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Retrieval Augmented Generation (what they are doing with Bing and ChatGPT) isn't that much of an undertaking. The hard part is making the LLM and the search engine. Putting them together is not all that much work.

But OpenAI is offered on Azure as well so MS can't just drop them and likely has no intention to do so.

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