Microsoft and OpenAI team up on artificial intelligence - SD Times

Microsoft is furthering its mission to democratize artificial intelligence. The company is teaming up with the AI research organization OpenAI to advance the acceleration of the technology. "We've made major strides in artificial intelligence just in the past five years, achieving milestones many people who have devoted their lives to the field wouldn't have thought possible," wrote Harry Shum executive vice president of Microsoft's artificial intelligence and research group, in a post. "Now we have the opportunity to help our partners and customers use these breakthroughs to achieve their goals." OpenAI will utilize Microsoft's Azure cloud service to conduct its large-scale AI and deep learning experiments.