OpenAI, a startup behind an artificial intelligence system for art and text generation, will receive an undisclosed investment from Microsoft. OpenAI said that the injection of new capital will be used to continue research and "develop increasingly safe, useful and powerful artificial intelligence".

Microsoft will increase its investment in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate the research on artificial intelligence of OpenAI, deploy the artificial intelligence system of OpenAI in its consumer and enterprise products, and "launch a new category of digital experience based on OpenAI technology". The technology giant's Azure cloud platform will continue to be the exclusive cloud provider of OpenAI, powering all the workloads of this startup in research, products and API services.

Advantages of Microsoft products

The main advantage of Microsoft products is versatility, which allows users to benefit from the so-called network effect. For example, the widespread use of MicrosoftOffice makes MicrosoftOffice files become the standard of document processing format, so almost all business users cannot do without Microsoft Office. Microsoft's software is also designed to be easy to set up, allowing enterprises to hire low-cost and low-standard system administrators. Supporters of Microsoft believe that the result is a lower "total cost of ownership".

Microsoft software also represents a "safe" choice for IT managers when purchasing software systems, because the universality of Microsoft software enables them to say that they are following a widely accepted choice. This is a particularly attractive benefit for it managers who lack professional knowledge.