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What you oughta know

Microsoft just announced an extended partnership with OpenAI.

The multibillion dollar deal sees Azure be the exclusive cloud provider of OpenAI.

Satya Nadella and Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day

Microsoft will also increase its investment into supercomputing systems to help improve OpenAI.

Rumors emerged earlier this month thatMicrosoft planned to invest $10 billion into OpenAI.

As part of that reported deal, Microsoft would obtain a 49% stake in the AI company.

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The tech giant did not specify the terms of its extended partnership with OpenAI today.

Nadella recently shared thatall Microsoft products would have AI toolsbuilt into them in the future.

The company also made its Azure OpenAI service generally available last week.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, February 2023

Sam Altman and Satya Nadella on stage

Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during a keynote at the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

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Apple Store in Bangkok, Thailand

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