Microsoft has exclusive access to OpenAI’s codebase: Elon Musk

Twitter chief govt officer Elon Musk mentioned on Friday that Microsoft was given unique and full entry to OpenAI’s codebase as a part of its funding within the generative AI agency. Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI, has reportedly invested one other $10 billion in it.

“As part of their investment, Microsoft gained exclusive access to the entire OpenAI codebase,” Musk tweeted.

Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 together with a small group of entrepreneurs and AI researchers, together with Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, and Ilya Sutskever, a former Google skilled on machine studying, amongst others.

Musk served on OpenAI’s board till 2018 however left to deal with Tesla. Over the previous few months, Musk has repeatedly criticized the corporate for putting in safeguards that forestall ChatGPT from producing textual content that may offend customers.

“ChatGPT is entirely housed within Microsoft Azure. When push comes to shove, they have everything, including the model weights,” Musk added.

Musk has criticised the agency for producing earnings from OpenAI, which was based as a non-profit.“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit firm to function a counterweight to Google, however now it has grow to be a closed supply, the maximum-profit firm successfully managed by Microsoft. Not what I supposed in any respect,” the Twitter CEO had mentioned final month.

Countering OpenAI

The Tesla CEO has approached a number of synthetic intelligence researchers to type a brand new lab that can work on growing an alternative choice to ChatGPT, in keeping with the US tech publication The Information.

Musk has additionally reached out to Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who lately left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit and specialises within the type of machine-learning fashions that energy chatbots like ChatGPT, as per the report.

Babuschkin added that he has not formally signed onto the Musk initiative, in keeping with the report.

“I’d like to work with Elon on something in the LLM space,” Babuschkin mentioned.

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