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Microsoft weighs $10bn investment in ChatGPT creator

The proposal under consideration calls for the software giant to put the money in over multiple years

ChatGPT has lit up the internet since launching at the end of November, gathering its first million users in less than a week

Microsoft is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion (€9.3 billion) in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans.

The proposal under consideration calls for the software giant to put the money in over multiple years, though the final terms may change, the people said, asking not to be named discussing a private matter. The two companies have been discussing the deal for months, ...