Introducing the public cloud: Azure OpenAI
In 2016, OpenAI agreed to leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure to run its AI experiments, which led, in 2019, to a $1 billion investment from the tech giant into Sam Altman’s company (https://newupercomputing-technologies/).
This marked the beginning of a strategic partnership between the two companies, aiming at developing AI models and technologies that can be used for the benefit of humanity. This partnership is based on the following three main pillars:
- Microsoft and OpenAI will jointly build new Azure supercomputing infrastructure to train AI models.
- OpenAI will make its models and technologies consumable from the Azure cloud.
- Microsoft will become OpenAI’s preferred partner for commercializing new AI solutions to the market.
Since then, the two companies kept investing and researching, and finally, in January 2023, OpenAI models were made available on Microsoft Azure...
