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Microsoft to invest billions more in ChatGPT maker

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Microsoft has confirmed its plans to make a “multibillion dollar” investment in OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot. The new investment follows previous investments by Microsoft in OpenAI, which also developed the image search engine DALL-E.

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