Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion into ChatGPT owner OpenAI as it looks to integrate the GPT3-based chatbot into its search engine Bing, Semafor reported. In 2019, Microsoft had invested $1 billion in OpenAI to expedite efforts to further artificial general intelligence for “widely distributed economic benefits.” The recent interest to invest $10 billion could be the direct result of ChatGPT’s rising popularity due to its ability to respond to queries on the internet using conversational language, a vastly different approach from what Google and Bing offer currently in the way of links.
