Microsoft has announced it will be partnering with the Elon Musk-backed OpenAI initiative in a bid to make "significant contributions to advance the field of AI". As part of its stated mission to'democratise AI', Microsoft will work closely with OpenAI in a joint effort to help ensure artificial intelligence is used to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems. The company outlined the new partnership in a blog post, where it also explained that OpenAI will use its Azure cloud platform, to help advance research and "create new tools and technologies that are only possible with the cloud". OpenAI is a nonprofit artificial intelligence research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever. The organisation will be using Microsoft's Azure N-Series Virtual Machines, which are designed to carry out intensive tasks such as deep learning, simulations, rendering and the training of neural networks.

The artificial intelligence (AI) non-profit OpenAI has agreed to partner with Microsoft to develop "cloud brains" to test its experiments. The organization, which is backed by Elon Musk, has signed an agreement that will allow it to run large-scale experiments using the company's Azure cloud services. OpenAI aims to discover more about deep learning and AI, while Microsoft will use the partnership to create new tools and technologies that use AI. OpenAI was one of the first adopters of Microsoft's Azure N-Series Virtual Machines service that was designed to handle the intense computing workloads that are needed to run simulations and deep learning projects. The service is powered by Nvidia's graphics chips and will be made generally available starting in December.

OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence research organization co-founded by tech visionaries Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever, announced Tuesday that it was partnering with Microsoft to advance its work in AI. As part of the deal, announced via a blog post, Microsoft Azure will act as the primary cloud platform for OpenAI. In the post, Microsoft said that it is "committed to democratizing AI and making it accessible to everyone," and that is a mission that they share with OpenAI. As part of the deal, Microsoft isn't just providing infrastructure, it will also help OpenAI "advance their research and create new tools and technologies that are only possible with the cloud," the post said. The reasoning behind OpenAI's decision to partner with Microsoft, according to the post, is due to Microsoft's focus on deep learning, open source technologies, and the capabilities available in tools such as Azure Batch, Azure Machine Learning, and the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit.

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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla's Elon Musk, Y Combinator's Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and numerous other tech luminaries, is partnering with Microsoft to tackle the next set of challenges in the still-nascent field. OpenAI will also make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud platform, in part because of its existing support for AI workloads with the help of Azure Batch and Azure Machine Learning, as well as Microsoft's work on its recently rebranded Cognitive Toolkit. Microsoft also offers developers access to a high-powered GPU-centric virtual machine for these kind of machine learning workloads. These N-Series machines are still in beta, but OpenAI has been an early adopter of them and Microsoft says they will become generally available in December. Amazon already offers a similar kind of GPU-focused virtual machine, though oddly enough, Google has lagged behind and -- at least for the time being -- doesn't offer this kind of machine type yet.

Microsoft is teaming up with Elon Musk's OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company. OpenAi announced on Tuesday it will work with Microsoft to start running the cloud platform Azure, making it the primary cloud system that OpenAI uses for deep learning and artificial intelligence, a move Microsoft said it was "excited" about. "OpenAI chose Microsoft due to our deep learning research and ongoing commitment to AI, along with Azure's support for open source technologies and its unique combination of high performance computing, big data and intelligence capabilities such as Azure Batch, Azure Machine Learning and the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (formerly CNTK)," said Microsoft in a statement. The partnership will work on "democratizing AI and making it accessible to everyone," Microsoft says. The company plans to make this happen by taking that intelligence and infusing it into everyday devices and apps.

Harry Shum (left), Microsoft AI and research group executive vice president, and Sam Altman, co-chair of OpenAI, will be working together on artificial intelligence. Microsoft has formed a partnership with OpenAI, an Elon Musk-based company, to research artificial intelligence. The two companies will focusing on "making significant contributions to advance the field of AI" and will work on their "mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems," Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post. Microsoft add that it is "committed to democratizing AI and making it accessible to everyone." AI is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, fueled by powerful chips, fast networks and the massive trail of data we all leave behind us as we go about our digital days.

On its own front, Microsoft has been keen to get more folks developing AI, enough to recently open-source the deep learning tools it used to build Skype Translate and Cortana for users to train their own AI. It's also opened its arms to other tech companies, partnering with Google, Amazon, IBM and Facebook in a coalition to trumpet the benefits of AI and agree on best practices. The initiative left out the Elon Musk and Peter Thiel-backed OpenAI, a research project dedicated to democratizing artificial intelligence. But today, the nonprofit announced a separate team-up with Microsoft to run large-scale experiments on the software giant's Azure cloud platform. Azure's open-sourced tools appealed to the nonprofit, as well as its computation-boosting Batch and machine learning capabilities, Microsoft said in a blog post.

Microsoft's continued investment in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology is paying dividends. The company has partnered with OpenAI, a non-profit company founded earlier this year to advance the field of machine intelligence for the benefit of humanity. As part of the deal, announced Tuesday, OpenAI will use Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud provider, an important win for Microsoft as it competes with the likes of Amazon, Google, and IBM to power the next generation of intelligent applications. OpenAI is backed by the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, controversial investor Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. On top of that, Microsoft also launched a set of cloud services all aimed at furthering intelligent applications. The new Azure Bot Service makes it easier for people to spin up intelligent chat bots in Microsoft's cloud, while Azure Functions lets customers run compute functions without provisioning servers.

Microsoft Corp. struck a partnership with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence research group, OpenAI, and said the organization will use the company's Azure cloud system for most of its large-scale experiments. OpenAI has been an early customer for Microsoft's Azure N-Series Virtual Machines, a powerful cloud-computing service that relies on Nvidia Corp. graphical processing units. The two will also collaborate on ways to advance AI research and its use, Microsoft and Open AI said Tuesday in blog posts. "In the coming months we will use thousands to tens of thousands of these machines to increase both the number of experiments we run and the size of the models we train," OpenAI said in its post. Everything you need to know about what's moving markets, in your inbox daily.