{"id":94082,"date":"2019-07-24T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-elon-musk-founded-openai"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:22:25","slug":"microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-elon-musk-founded-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-elon-musk-founded-openai","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Elon Musk-Founded OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-elon-musk-founded-openai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm originally founded by Elon Musk and Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman, just landed a $1 billion investment from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Though originally founded to be a non-profit, ethical alternative to the massive companies developing AI tech, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-elon-musk-openai-profit\">became a sort of hybrid<\/a> non-profit and for-profit back in March. The two companies have been collaborating on projects for years, but now with this new investment, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-investment-2019-7\">Business Insider<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-investment-2019-7\"> reports<\/a> that OpenAI will be developing AI tech specifically for Microsoft\u2019s cloud services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm originally founded by Elon Musk and Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman, just landed a $1 billion investment from Microsoft. Though originally founded to be a non-profit, ethical alternative to the massive companies developing AI tech, OpenAI became a sort of hybrid non-profit and for-profit back in March. The two companies have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}