Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power
Internal emails revealed that Elon Musk personally contacted Satya Nadella to secure discounted Microsoft computing power for OpenAI's Dota 2 AI project. This compute was crucial for training the OpenAI Five bot, which eventually defeated professional players. The article also touches on OpenAI's early advisory board and their progress with AI mastering games like Montezuma's Revenge.
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- Entities
- Topic: AGI
- Company: Microsoft
- Person: Ilya Sutskever
- Company: Valve
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Person: Satya Nadella
- Person: Shivon Zilis
- Person: Sam Altman
- Person: Greg Brockman
- Topic: Gaming AI
- Person: Elon Musk
- Company: OpenAI
- Person: Gabe Newell
- Game: Dota 2
- Topic: Cloud Computing
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