Microsoft CTO says partnership with OpenAI was ‘basically a bet’
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott admitted the company’s partnership with OpenAI was “basically a bet”. The tech conglomerate has been working with Scott Altman’s artificial intelligence business since 2019, and Kevin has now revealed Microsoft were banking on the company and its promises of innovation when the two came together. During an appearance on the ‘Possible’ podcast, he said: “This partnership with OpenAI was like basically a bet saying this particular team at the time also understood that this was a game of scaling, compute and doing incredible things with it in a very disciplined way.” Las...