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.
    • silencioso@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      10 个月前

      Not really if you have to divide resources between two. Computing necessary for training these models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        72·
        10 个月前

        MS has more than enough cash and resources to back two horses.

        Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

        This also gives them the luxury of trying a different approach.

        • silencioso@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 个月前

          Time will tell my guess is that Microsoft will sale its stake in openai or just drain openai from resources and people until it will disappear.

      • NounsAndWords@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 个月前

        I have no idea what MS is doing with AI internally, but predictive text is only one of the avenues towards AGI which sure seems to be the direction OpenAI (and everyone else currently looking to sell a product) are going. There are certainly other directions MS can go in the same field without putting all their eggs in one basket.