Microsoft plans to invest 10 billion in OpenAI, creator of the AI ​​robot ChatGPT.

According to sources quoted by “Bloomberg”, the two companies have been negotiating this partnership for months and the Redmond giant plans to expand its contribution over the next few years, although the final terms of the agreement could change. The investment, they point out, could involve other venture capital funds, and would place OpenAI’s market valuation is reportedly close to $30 billion..

If confirmed, it would not be the first time that Microsoft has invested in the company founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman.since in 2019 contributed $1 billion to OpenAI.

Although it is still far from perfect, ChatGPT has amassed a million users in its first week of life and has raised red flags at Alphabet, Google’s parent company.. According to the “New York Times”, the CEO of the company, Sundar Pichai, would have ordered different teams to delineate the potential threat that this tool represents for its search engine. Some experts say this is the first real threat to Google in the past two decades.

Microsoft intends to include ChatGPT in its own search engine, Bing, from March this year. The company founded by Bill Gates would thus attempt to compete for the Internet search engine market with Google, which holds a de facto monopoly in this area.

At the same time, the Redmond giant is developing in parallel Vall-E, a linguistic model for text-to-speech (TTS), capable of imitating any voice from a recording of only three seconds.. The goal is to make this technology work with other generative AI models such as GPT-3 and provide us with voice results once this model is integrated.

These technologies come at the end of a year of major advances in AI, which has also seen a major breakthrough in image generation modeling. Slab by OpenAI, which accepts written instructions for synthesizing art images and other images and which has given rise to extensive debate over its use, authorship, and what is or is not art, sparking concerns about its premature use.

Several educational institutions in the United States have banned the use of these tools, and Altman himself has claimed that they are “not good enough” to be reliable. It should be noted that OpenAI is already working on a successor GPT-4 model for its natural language processing.