Microsoft announces multibillion investment in OpenAI

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Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership with new multibillion-dollar investment
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Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership with new multibillion-dollar investment

The tech giant will build specialised supercomputers to grow OpenAI's independent AI research as part of the new agreement

Microsoft has announced a "multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment" in San Francisco-based AI firm OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT. On Monday, the tech titan touted its new agreement as the th...

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