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Altman spoke via prerecorded video message to an Amazon event in
San Francisco at the same time as he was appearing in federal
court across San Francisco Bay in Oakland for a civil trial
brought by rival OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk.
Microsoft had said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its
revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a
close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence
boom.
OpenAI relied exclusively on Microsoft’s investments in cloud
computing services to build the technology that helped make
ChatGPT a household name. Microsoft, in turn, relied on OpenAI’s
technology to build its own AI assistant Copilot.
But the partnership has evolved as San Francisco-based OpenAI,
founded as a nonprofit, has shifted to a capitalistic enterprise
on a path toward an initial public offering on Wall Street and
has balanced its reliance on Microsoft with other cloud partners
like Amazon, Google and Oracle.
OpenAI said Monday it will continue to pay Microsoft a share of
its revenue through 2030, though the rate will be capped. OpenAI
has been on a race to boost sales of its AI technology by
focusing on big business customers. Its chief revenue officer,
Denise Dresser, also spoke at the Amazon event.
Microsoft remains the primary cloud computing partner for OpenAI,
and products made by the AI company will ship first on
Microsoft’s cloud platform, called Azure, “unless Microsoft
cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities,”
both companies said.
Altman suggested in his remarks Tuesday that Amazon had those
capabilities.
“These systems need to run reliably and robustly,” Altman said.
"They need to be secure, they need to scale, and they need to
fit in the environments where companies already run their
businesses. And they need infrastructure that customers already
trust for their most important workloads. That’s what makes this
partnership with AWS so important."
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