Microsoft will buy a 49% stake in OpenAI for $10 billion, the company behind chatbot ChatGPT. If the deal goes through, it would be one of the largest investments in the AI industry to date and would signify a major step forward for both Microsoft and OpenAI.
The news of the potential investment has generated a lot of buzz on social media, with many people expressing excitement about the future possibilities of GPT-3 and ChatGPT under Microsoft's guidance. However, there have also been some memes and backlash on Twitter, with some people criticizing Microsoft's past actions and questioning the company's commitment to ethical AI.
Despite the mixed reactions, it's clear that the potential investment in OpenAI represents a significant opportunity for Microsoft to further its AI capabilities and solidify its position as a leader in the industry. GPT-3, in particular, has proven to be a powerful tool for natural language processing and has already been used in a variety of applications, including chatbots, language translation, and content generation.
Microsoft has been reportedly experimenting with building OpenAI’s language AI technology into its Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps. The Information reports that Microsoft has already incorporated an unknown version of OpenAI’s text-generating GPT model into Word in its autocomplete feature, and has been working on integrating it further into Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Before this deal, Microsoft purchased an exclusive license to the underlying technology behind GPT-3 in 2020 after investing $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. It has built a deep relationship with OpenAI ever since, including plans to add an AI text-to-image model to Bing powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2.
In the future, Microsoft could use these models to scrape and summarize information from Teams Meetings transcripts, and then add images generated from OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 image generation model to PowerPoint presentations. Researchers have reportedly presented their Office integration work to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, but it’s not clear if and when these GPT- or Dall-E 2-powered models would be available in Office products.
