Microsoft’s cloud artificial intelligence business expected to achieve annual revenue of $1 billion information, But the report pointed out that TikTok If it develops its own large language model (LLM), it may not need these features so strongly.
Last year, my colleague Alex Heath reported that TikTok parent company ByteDance was “secretly using” OpenAI’s technology to create its own LL.M.:
This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the field of artificial intelligence. It also directly violates OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that its model output cannot be used “to develop any artificial intelligence models that compete with our products and services.” ByteDance purchases its OpenAI access rights through Microsoft, which has the same policy.
Microsoft also signed a multi-billion dollar investment agreement to become OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider and spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” building a supercomputer to power ChatGPT. Microsoft revealed in its fourth-quarter 2024 earnings report on Tuesday that Azure revenue grew 29%, slightly lower than the 30% to 31% forecast in its last earnings release. Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said Microsoft expects Azure revenue to grow by about 28% to 29% in the first quarter of 2025.
