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Re: Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

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(I work at OpenAI.) > It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 years, and maybe much faster. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!

> (I work at OpenAI.) Can you do an AI CTF like the Stripe distributed systems CTF sometime?

We should build one ourselves, actually. That's a terrific idea.

Re: Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

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post #140

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(I work at OpenAI.) > It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 years, and maybe much faster. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!

>>"We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!" That's great, one question where can I use GYM or universe in the cloud with the render() option. I've spend many hours trying to set up the environment in cloud [1] without success. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40195740/how-to-run-open...

Check out this example: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practic...

Re: Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

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> My "guess" is they're offering $1B worth of Azure services. Which costs MSFT probably much less than $1B. It's a cash investment. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though. > My "guess" is that it means MSFT has access to sell products based off the research OpenAI does to MSFT's customers. Having early access to advanced research means MSFT could easily make this money back by selling better AI tools…

Sorry for the cowardice of this throwaway account, but it freaks me out that Musk left, and Thiel is still there. Going back in time: > Musk has joined with other Silicon Valley notables to form OpenAI, which was launched with a blog post Friday afternoon. The group claimed to have the goal “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to gener…

They left in good terms, Musk was competing in terms of talent (e.g Andrej Karpathy leaving OpenAI for Tesla).

See: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1096987465326374912?lang...

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