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Microsoft made an early bet on ChatGPT

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In 2019, Microsoft made a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT. The technology giant has invested another $2 billion to help build the chatbot that answers questions, writes documents and offers responses on topics put to it.

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