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Kevin Okemwa

Microsoft’s AI leadership warns that building more advanced AI could require “hundreds of billions” — but vows it'll stop if it ever threatens humanity

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive officer of Microsoft AI.

It's no secret that pursuing generative AI is an expensive venture; this can be narrowed down to the technology's exorbitant demand for computing power and the talent required to make sophisticated advances.

It's amid emerging claims that scaling laws have begun to stop, preventing top AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google from developing advanced AI models. Microsoft and OpenAI recently renewed the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership under a new definitive agreement, which allows the software giant to pursue AGI independently or in collaboration with third parties.

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