Microsoft said that they could continue OpenAI's research with no slowdown if OpenAI cut them off by hiring all OpenAI's people, so from that statement it sounds like they have access.
Re:Sora: Creating video from text
by costcofries on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:45PM
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I promise you this isn't true.
I didn't realize that. Thank you for the clarification.
This is not true. Microsoft have a perpetual license to all of OpenAI's IP. If they really wanted to they could get their hands on it.
Yeah but what's in the license? It's not public so we have no way of knowing
No. They have early access. Example: MSFT was using Dall-e Exp (early 3 version) in PUBLIC, since February of 2023.
In the same month, they were also using GPT4 in public - before OpenAI.
And they had access to GPT4 in 2022 (which was when they decided to create Bing Chat, now called Copilot).
All the current GPT4 models at MSFT are also finetuned versions (literally Creative and Precise mode runs different finetuned versions of GPT4). It runs finetuned versions since launch even...
AI researcher at MSFT barely have more insights about OpenAI than you do reading HN.