OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, casts spell on Microsoft

The OpenAI website on a laptop computer arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Jan 12, 2023. Microsoft Corp is in discussions to invest as much as US$10bil in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans. — Bloomberg

PARIS: The hottest startup in Silicon Valley right now is OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed developer of ChatGPT, a much-hyped chatbot that can write a poem, college essay or even a line of software code.

Tesla tycoon Elon Musk was an early investor in OpenAI and Microsoft is reported to be in talks to up an initial investment of US$1bil (RM4.33bil) to US$10bil (RM43.35bil) in a goal to challenge Google’s world-dominating search engine.