{"id":72369,"date":"2023-01-11T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72369"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:44:45","slug":"microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-openai-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-openai-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is considering investing $10 billion in OpenAI. The startup is currently valued at $29 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/09\/2023\/microsoft-eyes-10-billion-bet-on-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Semafor<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press, Microsoft would receive 75% of the AI company&#8217;s profits until it has recouped its investment. After such repayment, the corporation would hold 49% of OpenAI&#8217;s shares. Other investors would split the remaining 49%, while the nonprofit parent entity would retain the remaining 2%.<\/p>\n<p>There are also limits on profit distribution for each class of shares. However, the caps on margins are not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of the deal and the amount of the investment could change as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is among the leaders in the field of generative AI. In 2022 the startup released two popular applications: DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has already integrated it into some of its products, including the graphic-design app Designer. The tech giant is also interested in using ChatGPT in Office apps and the Bing search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies have maintained a close working relationship for several years. In 2020 Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">announced<\/a> a deal with the startup for exclusive licensing of its GPT-3 language models. Later this <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/github-unveils-ai-powered-copilot-code-autocompletion-tool\">led to<\/a> the creation of the AI coding assistant GitHub Copilot.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is a major client of the Azure cloud computing platform and has access to a dedicated AI supercomputer cluster with &#8220;more than 285,000 CPU cores and 10,000 GPUs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, the AI startup said it expected revenue to grow to $1 billion within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>In October, media reported plans by the tech giant to increase investments in OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog AI news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is considering investing $10 billion in OpenAI. The startup is currently valued at $29 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,52,15,1190],"class_list":["post-72369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-investments","tag-microsoft","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72371,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72369\/revisions\/72371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}