Will Microsoft Acquire OpenAI?

When Microsoft injected $1 billion in artificial intelligence project co-founded by Elon Musk called OpenAI, it changed everything for the project. It brought the AI moonshot into the limelight and made much of its research more concrete. It's hard to catch how quickly things moved, but in November, 2021 something incredible happend amid all the headlines at OpenAI. That's when Microsoft launched the Azure OpenAI Service (November, 2021) -- giving Azure customers the ability to utilize OpenAI's machine learning models. Unveiled at the company's recent Ignite event, the service is based on GPT-3, a language model developed by OpenAI, the company which Microsoft backed with $1bn in 2019.