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Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools
Microsoft and OpenAI announced they’re offering a select group of media outlets up to $10 million ($2.5 million in cash plus $2.5 million worth of “software and enterprise credits” from each) to try out AI tools in the newsroom.
Microsoft & OpenAI are paying millions to outlets to implement AI
Microsoft and OpenAI are paying up to $10 million to news outlets to implement AI-powered tools to assist writers and researchers.
OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism
OpenAI and Microsoft are funding projects to bring more AI tools into the newsroom. The duo will give grants of up to $10 million to Chicago Public Media, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday (in Long Island,
Microsoft and OpenAI are offering media outlets up to $10 million to bolster the use of AI-powered tools in newsrooms: "Nothing will replace the central role of reporters"
Microsoft and OpenAI are giving media outlets up to $10 million to integrate AI tools into their workflow. The media outlets will also receive a grant to hire a two-year fellow to develop and implement AI tools using Microsoft Azure and OpenAI credits.
Microsoft and OpenAI lead $10 million AI push to modernise journalism: All about the fellowship
In collaboration with the Lenfest Institute, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a $10 million initiative to help newsrooms adopt AI. The programme aims to enhance local journalism through funding and software credits,
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OpenAI mulls setting up data centers, reducing reliance on Microsoft - report
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OpenAI looks to use data center providers beyond Microsoft, could take up 2GW at Oracle site
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Why AI is going nuclear
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all announced plans to partner with or build new nuclear power plants and reactors for AI.
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OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan that would place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities, Bloomberg reports. The AI company's CEO, Sam Altman ...
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OpenAI pitched White House on economic benefits of 5GW data centers
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OpenAI Pitched White House on Massive Data Center Buildout
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Microsoft's mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases
For companies like Microsoft that are building massive data centers to handle artificial intelligence workloads ... The pace has been frenetic since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022.
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The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game
This colossal project underscores the immense scale of the high-stakes AI gamble ... data center operators and tech firms—CoreWeave, QTS, Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and ...
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OpenAI, Microsoft fund $10M Lenfest Institute AI local news project
OpenAI and its minority owner Microsoft are funding a $10 million AI collaborative and fellowship program operated by the ...