In an attempt to allay concerns about its dominance, Microsoft President Brad Smith on Monday unveiled a set of guidelines to promote innovation and competition in artificial intelligence, acknowledging the company’s position as the industry leader in this field.
The US IT behemoth made the decision in response to antitrust authorities and competitors’ worries about Microsoft’s increasing market dominance, which was recently enhanced by the company’s partnership with OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT.
Over the past year, Microsoft has integrated chatbots into its essential products, such its Office suite and Bing search engine, drawing in business clients ready to test out the latest innovation in the IT sector.
“We think this is the best time to articulate principles that will govern how we will operate our AI datacenter infrastructure and other important AI assets around the world as we enter a new era based on artificial intelligence,” Smith stated in a speech that was scheduled to be given at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
He stated that one of the goals of the AI Access Principles is “to address Microsoft’s growing role and responsibility as an AI innovator and a market leader.”
“By publishing these principles, we are committing ourselves to providing the broad technology access needed to empower organisations and individuals around the world to develop and use AI in ways that will serve the public good,” Smith stated.
The guiding principles include giving AI developers access and support, opening up AI models and development tools to software developers worldwide, and making public APIs (application programming interfaces) available so developers can use and access AI models on Microsoft Azure.
Additionally, Microsoft will not use proprietary data or information from the creation and implementation of developers’ AI models on Microsoft Azure to undermine those models. Additionally, Microsoft Azure users will have the ability to effortlessly export and move their data to another cloud provider.
