- Published on May 30, 2023
- In Global Tech
What is Microsoft Without OpenAI?
Google has its Bard, Meta has its metaverse dreams, Microsoft has nothing apart from the age-old Windows and Office 365 products
- By Mohit Pandey
The non-profit organisation that it was, OpenAI, gained investments from Microsoft right after becoming a “capped” profit company in 2019. This was not received well by a lot of people, including co-founder Elon Musk, who decided to leave the company a year before that. The open source AI company became closed and bid to mint money.
Microsoft looks like the clear winner in this AI battle. The $13 billion bet that the company has made on OpenAI, is reaping benefits for the tech-giant while competitors like Google and Meta are running for their money to keep up. But if we look even closely, and look at the recent developments by Microsoft that was announced at the Build Conference, all of that would not have been possible without OpenAI.
“Microsoft hasn’t released a single pro
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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