As it looks to scale GPT-4, Microsoft faces a major hardware challenge, sources say.
Microsoft is getting ready to announce the integration of ChatGPT, the already-famous AI-powered chatbot, into its Office productivity suite of apps, the media are reporting.
According to a report on The Information (opens in new tab), the company should unveil the upgrade on Thursday, but it faces a major challenge – the lack of proper hardware needed to run the tool at scale.
Citing some company employees, the publication said Microsoft is “facing an internal shortage of the server hardware needed to run the AI.”GPT-4
To be able to meet demand, especially since it opened up the floodgates to the new, ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, the company decided to ration access to the hardware for some Microsoft teams building other artificial intelligence tools.
