Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and ‘colleagues’ joins Microsoft to lead Advanced AI Research::Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, Satya Nadella said.
It just seems so integrated with Bing at this point. I realize it could be replaced, but that sounds like a huge undertaking and not especially cost-effective, but I’m not in the industry, so that’s just my lay observation.
They’ve committed to investing $10B into OpenAI. The engineering cost of swapping out the Bing integration wouldn’t even register.
The upside for Microsoft is worth it though. They wouldn’t be beholden to OpenAI for LLM technology if they completely replace that with their own in house AI.