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.
