Microsoft acquires the exclusive GPT-3 license
In one sentence Microsoft announces an exclusive license to integrate and redistribute GPT-3 in its products and cloud services, while OpenAI's public API keeps operating. The first major enterprise deal on foundation models.
Three months after the GPT-3 API opens, Microsoft announces a major deal with OpenAI: it gets the exclusive right to use and embed GPT-3 inside its products. In practice it can build AI features into Word, Outlook, Teams, or Azure using the model as the engine under the hood.
OpenAI keeps selling the API to outside developers, but GPT-3's code, weights, and deep integration belong to Microsoft.
For the enterprise world this is big: it means office tools will soon get GPT-like abilities. The first concrete sign that generative AI is entering corporate stacks, not just consumer products.
Companies
Microsoft, OpenAI
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GPT-3, Azure OpenAI
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