Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model

Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model(blogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by zeusly 5 years ago | 10 comments

How is this “exclusive” if the API remains available?

AJRF 5 years ago | |

It won't be on AWS or GCP. That's pretty important to businesses already using cloud and wanting to "add AI" to their product offerings.

hnryjmes 5 years ago |

What's stopping Microsoft buying OpenAI like Google (Alphabet) bought DeepMind?

Aeronwen 5 years ago | |

Microsoft wouldn't make back the purchase price doing anything with OpenAI's IP that they can't do now.

pen2l 5 years ago | | |

It would be a damn valuable acqui-hire though. I think the deepmind-acquisition comparison grandparent post makes is very apt.

marvin 5 years ago | |

OpenAI's board of directors, I'd say. Becoming a subsidiary to Microsoft compromises their mission.

hendler 5 years ago |

Will there be an open source alternative?

Huggingface or an academic effort could also improve the efficiency of few/one shot learning, or simply a crowdsourced model build seems within reach.

I guess to run the model you need a large machine too.

pontifier 5 years ago |

I dont trust them

dgellow 5 years ago | |

Don't trust them for what?

pontifier 5 years ago | | |

I don't trust microsoft to act ethically with that power.