OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.
OpenAI investors include MicrosoftMicrosoft, Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Bedrock Capital, and Andreesen Horowitz. In July 2019, Microsoft partnered with OpenAI to support the company's AGI research and development. This included a $1 billion investment from Microsoft, a partnership to develop a hardware and software platform for Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI, and Microsoft becoming OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider. In September 2020, Microsoft also announced it had partnered with OpenAI to exclusively license its language model GPT-3. Microsoft made a second investment in OpenAI in 2021, although details were not released.