Although OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has no plans to open an OpenAI R&D center in Israel, preferring to focus all of the company’s activities in San Francisco, sources familiar with the situation told “Globes” that Microsoft’s R&D center is in Herzliya will play a major role in marketing the version of Chatbot ChatGPT sold to enterprises, by developing cyber security solutions for them.
Between his meeting with President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv and meetings at Tel Aviv University today, Altman also visited the Microsoft campus in Herzliya Betwah. This evening he had dinner with Professor Yuval Noah Harari before he traveled to Jordan.
Microsoft has already invested $10 billion in OpenAI and collaboration between the two companies is set to deepen to solve one of OpenAI’s central problems. Altman knows very well that the issue of data security and reliability is a big challenge for OpenAI. More than the threat of humanity’s extinction by artificial intelligence, he is troubled by how loss-making OpenAI will be able to market the vast knowledge and advantages it has gained in one of the most important industries among investors today. But as long as ChatGPT security breaches exist, OpenAI’s future is limited.
To address this problem, sources report to “Globes” that Microsoft Israel will participate in the development of technologies that will help OpenAI reach customers that it cannot reach today, such as banks, insurance companies, industrial facilities and hospitals – organizations that do not require very high service reliability and minimal downtime. , but also a high level of privacy and data security.
The Microsoft Research and Development Center in Herzliya is the global company’s main cybersecurity center, which is run by one of the Israeli cybersecurity pioneers, Michal Braverman-Blumenstic. Despite recent layoffs, as it has at most technology companies, Microsoft Israel’s investment in cybersecurity will continue to grow. The company announced last year that it would invest $4 billion in the field.
The cooperation will be mutual. OpenAI and its scientists will also be able to develop and train Microsoft’s AI capabilities for current and potential threats. OpenAI’s AI tool Copilot product, launched three months ago, reflects this: Microsoft is applying its AI knowledge to ChatGPT with the goal of providing data security managers with the ability to protect their companies.
Published by Globes, Israel business news – en.globes.co.il – on June 5, 2023.
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