- From
- Elon Musk
- Sent
- Friday, September 16, 2016 3:10 PM
- To
- Sam Altman
- Cc
- Sam Teller
- Subject
- MSFT hosting deal
This actually made me feel nauseous. It sucks and is exactly what I would expect from them.
Evaluation, Evangelization, and Usage of CNTK v2, Azure Batch and HD-Insight: OpenAI will evaluate CNTK v2, Azure Batch, and HD-Insight for their research, provide feedback on how Microsoft can improve these products. OpenAI will work with Microsoft to evangelize these products to their research and developer ecosystems, and evangelize Microsoft Azure as their preferred public cloud provider. At their sole discretion, and as it makes sense for their research, OpenAI will adopt these products
Let’s just say that we are willing to have Microsoft donate spare computing time to OpenAI and have that be known, but we want do any contract or agree to “evangelize”. They can turn us off at any time and we can leave at any time.
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