Microsoft announces "billion-dollar" investment in OpenAI

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The

company has announced on Monday an investment of "billions" of dollars in the artificial intelligence company

, creator of the successful

, the predictive chat created by robots.

The joint statement from Microsoft and OpenAI does not detail the amount of this investment, which two weeks ago was advanced by financial media such as 'Semafor' or the 'Financial Times' and estimated at

.

According to them, Microsoft will reserve 75% of the profits from OpenAI until they recover the amount of their investment.

The association between the two companies will last for

and will allow them to "independently commercialize" the technological advances achieved in the field of supercomputing, the statement said.

One part of the agreement specifies that Azure - the part of Microsoft in charge of the Internet "cloud" - will become the

in all kinds of cloud-related services.

The statement from the two companies proclaims that with this investment they intend to "democratize artificial intelligence as a technological platform."

Last week, at the Davos Economic Forum, a Google representative did not hesitate to affirm that

, based on machine learning and capable of holding conversations or solving doubts, will be the "new battlefield" for technology companies after the success achieved by applications such as ChatGPT.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted in Davos that thanks to apps like ChatGPT we are living in the

by being able to "act as a co-pilot, helping people do more with less".

The ChatGPT application has become a chat capable of answering questions, holding conversations, translating or generating text, and it is considered that it will be capable of transforming productivity at work and relations with users, especially after the success of reaching the million downloads in just 5 days on the market.

A few weeks ago, Morgan Stanley published a report in which it considered that ChatGPT could become a threat to the leading search engine par excellence, Google, by jeopardizing its current position as the indisputable entry point on the Internet for millions of people.

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