Here's Why Microsoft Invested In OpenAI, Backed By Infosys, Elon Musk, Others

This week Microsoft announced that it is investing $1 Bn in partnership with OpenAI to support the development of an AI framework and models for AI applications across operations and services, built on the company's Azure cloud service. OpenAI is a non-profit AI research group, backed by the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Infosys, Amazon Web Services and others. However, Microsoft's investment would be for a for-profit offshoot of OpenAI. OpenAI will be using Microsoft's Azure cloud services to run the group's AI software. The two companies will come together to build a large-scale AI system for Azure.