Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
中文摘要
微软曾担心OpenAI转投亚马逊并诋毁其Azure服务
English Summary
Court documents reveal Microsoft executives once feared OpenAI might abandon their partnership for Amazon and criticize Microsoft's Azure services.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. | Image: Getty Images When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between Microsoft's top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears the AI startup could "storm off to Amazon" and "shit-talk" Microsoft. Just days after OpenAI showed a bot beating a Dota 2 professional in the summer of 2017, Altman responded to Nadella's congratulations email with a proposal for a much bigger partnership with OpenAI to fund its next phase of AI resear … Read the full story at The Verge.