Microsoft is in talks with OpenAI to invest $10 billion in the company and integrate the ChatGPT chatbot into products such as Word, Outlook and Powerpoint, Bloomberg writes. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in OpenAI in 2019, and ChatGPT is the program that blew a lot of people away in December.

Sources say the two companies have been in talks for several months and the $10 billion investment could be spread over several years. However, no final decision was made.

• How the ChatGPT chatbot answers the question: “What did Stephen the Great kill the ferret with?”

In recent days, the press wrote that OpenAI could be valued at 30 billion dollars.

The news publication wrote that Microsoft employees are testing ways in which the technology used in the chatbot can be integrated into products such as the Bing search engine or the Word package.

This would mean that Bing would offer more direct responses, and in Outlook, the technology could create specific emails that the user could send later. In Word, the “autocorrect” option can work much more efficiently.

Microsoft is testing integration technologies to see how they can be safely used in its products because ChatGPT often provides answers that sound grammatically correct but are full of factual errors.

ChatGPT has been “trained” on massive amounts of data, but does NOT have real-time internet access and information newer than the second half of 2021.

Representatives of OpenAI, the company that developed it, say that the chatbot does not always give the right answers, and advise to verify any information and not take it for granted.

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