{"id":97038,"date":"2019-07-22T20:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:10:37","slug":"microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lcom-stacked__main\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><span>Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/12\/11\/sam-altman-elon-musk-peter-thiel-and-others-commit-1b-to-nonprofit-artificial-research-lab-openai\/\">OpenAI<\/a><span>, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2014 AI with the capacity to learn any intellectual task that a human can \u2014 with \u201cwidely distributed\u201d economic benefits.<br \/>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/07\/22\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-to-develop-ai-technologies-on-azure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venture Beat<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/popup\/nojs\" class=\"ctools-use-modal ctools-modal-subscription-modal-style element-invisible\" title>Click Here!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in&nbsp;OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}