Microsoft wants to invest ten billion US dollars in OpenAI

In the future, the US company could even use the company's AI technology in its products, for example in office programs such as Word or the Bing search engine.

All you have to do is throw it an explanatory sentence and the software from US company OpenAI will generate a complex text or a detailed image. The chatbot ChatGPT could be told: "Write me a school essay about the role of women in Goethe's Faust." It can even write software code. The Dall-E 2 software is fed sentences such as: "Create a painting of a duck with a hat in Van Gogh style." The results are often astonishing.

The hype surrounding the company has therefore been enormous for several weeks. Software giant Microsoft has also recognized this. According to some media reports in the USA, it wants to invest up to 10 billion US dollars in OpenAI. According to Bloomberg refers to the website Semafor. This in turn is based on people familiar with the matter. However, it is not yet known whether the deal has actually been concluded.

Microsoft would therefore receive 49 percent of OpenAI and take 75 percent of the profits until it has the 10 billion US dollars back. However, it should be noted that OpenAI currently offers many services as a free trial version and is probably not yet a profit champion.

Microsoft apparently believed in the potential of OpenAI early on and invested USD 1 billion in the start-up back in 2019. Some experts assume that the company has big plans for OpenAI: Microsoft could use the AI technology in Office programs such as Word, the search engine Bing, the social network LinkedIn and code hosting platform GitHub.