[CNMO News] On October 21, CNMO learned that Microsoft and OpenAI have in-depth negotiations on capital increase.
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According to a person familiar with the matter, Microsoft is in in-depth negotiations with OpenAI, a research company for artificial intelligence , on a new round of financing. It is understood that Microsoft hopes to increase its investment in OpenAI, and the company is seeking to further integrate artificial intelligence into its products. In addition, the people familiar with the matter said that the two sides have not reached an agreement and the amount of funds may change as the negotiations progress, which has been negotiated several times in recent weeks. In other words, there are still some uncertainties in the negotiations between the two sides.
Microsoft's cooperation with OpenAI began in 2019, when Microsoft announced its major partnership with OpenAI, including a $1 billion investment in exchange for an exclusive license to OpenAI technology, both parties will build a computing platform in Azure that can train and run increasingly advanced AI models.
It is reported that OpenAI was founded in 2015 and is an artificial intelligence research company with its mission to make artificial intelligence benefit all mankind. It is worth mentioning that at the recent Ignite 2022 conference, Microsoft announced that OpenAI's technology will be integrated with the Azure cloud platform. Some invited customers can now register to use DALL-E2 through OpenAI Services.