Microsoft announced an agreement with OpenAI to license OpenAI’s GPT-3 deep-learning model for natural-language processing (NLP). Although Microsoft’s announcement says it has “exclusively” licensed the model, OpenAI will continue to offer access to the model via its own API.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott wrote about the agreement on Microsoft’s blog. The deal builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations, which includes a partnership in building a supercomputer on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. OpenAI recently used that supercomputer to train GPT-3, which at 175 billion parameters is one of the largest NLP deep-learning models trained to date.
