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Nhabls t1_j6xhm7v wrote

Reply to comment by cthorrez in [N] Microsoft integrates GPT 3.5 into Teams by bikeskata

I don't think the billion was for gpt alone, it was to build out an entire AI ecosystem within azure and a big chunk of it was handed out as azure credits anyway

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bokonator t1_j6yecgt wrote

Microsoft recently paid 10B$ to get full access to the model and allow openAI full access to Azure GPUs and a 49% ownership.

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Nhabls t1_j6ymdmr wrote

The 10 Billion dollar deal is, reportedly, giving microsoft 75% of OpenAI's profits until a certain threshold, that's more than just any given model

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anananananana t1_j715cp1 wrote

Wow, OpenAI indeed. They couldn't have gone more against the original intention of democratizing AI if they tried.

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DM-me-ur-tits-plz- t1_j73n2dw wrote

When they originally went closed-source they claimed it was because of the dangers that being open-sourced presented.

About a year later they dropped their non-profit status and sold out to Microsoft.

Love the company, but that's some crazy double speak there.

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AristosTotalis t1_j6ye5hn wrote

yep. $1B in cash but they have to use Azure as their exclusive compute cloud compute provider, which Microsoft probably sells to OAI at ~cost

I think it' safe to assume that 2/3 of that will go towards training & inference, and if you also assume M doesn't make nor lose money selling compute (and in fact they get to strengthen Azure as a cloud infra player), they really only paid ~$300M to invest in OAI at what seems like a great price in hindsight

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Nhabls t1_j6ymqwr wrote

Well OpenAI also, in that scenario, got a massive on demand compute infrastructure at cost, that's a good deal both ways.

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