Microsoft Teaming Up With Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Group OpenAI

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.