SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI and Microsoft have announced the extension of their partnership, marking another significant step in their collaboration. This new multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment from Microsoft follows previous investments made in 2019 and 2021, reinforcing their shared commitment to advancing safe, useful, and powerful AI.

As part of its mission to ensure that advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI operates as a capped-profit company governed by the OpenAI non-profit. This structure enables OpenAI to raise the necessary capital without compromising its core values of broadly sharing benefits and prioritizing safety.

Microsoft, aligning with OpenAI’s vision and values, has played a crucial role in this progress. Together, they have developed multiple supercomputing systems powered by Azure, which are essential for training OpenAI’s models. Azure’s architecture has been instrumental in achieving top-tier performance and scale for AI training and inference workloads. With this renewed investment, Microsoft will further enhance these systems to boost OpenAI’s independent research, and Azure will continue to be the exclusive cloud provider for all OpenAI workloads, including research, API, and products.

The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft extends beyond infrastructure. They have jointly deployed OpenAI’s technology through the API and the Azure OpenAI Service, enabling enterprises and developers to build on top of models like GPT, DALL·E, and Codex. Their collaboration has also integrated OpenAI’s technology into applications such as GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Designer.

Both organizations are committed to building and deploying safe AI systems. Their teams frequently collaborate to review and synthesize shared lessons, which inform iterative updates to AI systems, guide future research, and establish best practices for using powerful AI technologies across the industry.

OpenAI and Microsoft look forward to continued collaboration, driving forward their mission of making advanced AI widely beneficial.