“We’re happy either way” regardless of who makes the sale, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says of the company’s partnership with Microsoft. Tiernan Ray/ZDNET
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft does not set out a fixed definition of who leads or manages AI sales, said Sam Altman, CEO of the artificial intelligence startup. On the contrary, each company does its best to “achieve the most shared success possible”.
At the company’s first-ever developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, Altman said there was no “fixed structure to this relationship,” which led Microsoft to invest more than ten billion of dollars in OpenAI.
“You have built something magical”
“A lot of people are still wondering where the divide is between what OpenAI does and what Microsoft does,” he told ZDNET. “The answer is we have a relationship where we’re very happy when they make a sale, and they’re very happy when we make a sale,” Altman said, referring to OpenAI and Microsoft.
“There are people who are on Azure and want something that’s inside the Azure portal. Others prefer to work directly with us for various reasons, and we’re all happy either way,” remarked Mr. Altman.
Earlier, during his keynote, Mr. Altman was joined on stage by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Mr. Altman jokingly asked Mr. Nadella, “How does Microsoft envision this partnership?” This question elicited laughter from Nadella and the audience.
“You have built something magical,” Mr. Nadella said. The partnership has “radically changed” the “shape” of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, Nadella said. “Our job is to create the best system so you can build the best models,” Nadella added.
“I can’t wait for us to build AGI together”
“I still view Microsoft as a platform company, a development company and a partnership company,” Mr. Nadella said. “The systems needed to deliver on your roadmap require us to be at the top of our game,” Nadella said. He added that the shared mission of the two companies is to “empower every person in every organization to achieve more.”
Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, said: “We have customers in almost every industry, in financial services, in a lot of legal applications, in educational applications.” Tiernan Ray/ZDNET
In response to Nadella, Altman said, “I can’t wait for us to build AGI together,” or artificial general intelligence, the concept of computers capable of matching the thinking abilities of humans. the man.
In addition to the 2 million developers who work with its code, Altman said 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies use its technology.
AI “does the first step of the work for you, and it’s really like a super collaborator”
Asked at the press conference about commercial examples, Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, said: “We have customers in almost every industry, in financial services, in a lot of legal applications, in educational applications.
And to clarify the use of AI in business: “The way I summarize it, it’s a bit like the first step of work for anyone,” said Mira Murati. “She does that first step of the work for you, and she’s really like a great collaborator.”