As of March this year, this amount accounted for nearly a quarter of the revenue of Microsoft's increasingly lucrative cloud computing division.
According to The Information, Microsoft's AI cloud business is on track to reach annual revenue of up to $1 billion. However, the report also notes that TikTok may not need to rely as much on these services if it develops its own "large language model" (LLM).
Previously, it was revealed that ByteDance - TikTok's parent company, is "quietly" using OpenAI technology to develop its own large language model (LLM).
Following that report, OpenAI suspended ByteDance's account to investigate possible violations of its development license. At the time, ByteDance told CNN it was only using the technology "to a very limited extent" to support the creation of its own models.
Microsoft also made a multi-billion dollar investment deal, thereby becoming the exclusive cloud service provider for OpenAI, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a supercomputer to support ChatGPT. .
