{"id":962282,"date":"2025-09-17T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962282"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:46:45","slug":"how-and-why-microsofts-1-billion-bet-on-chatgpt-maker-openai-in-2019-may-be-best-investment-in-tech-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/how-and-why-microsofts-1-billion-bet-on-chatgpt-maker-openai-in-2019-may-be-best-investment-in-tech-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How and why Microsoft\u2019s $1 billion bet on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in 2019 may be best investment in tech history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI recently announced plans to restructure into a for-profit public benefit corporation, a move that will allow it to issue traditional stock to investors. With this change, according to analysts, Microsoft is set to receive a new equity stake in OpenAI that could be worth at least $150 billion. This would be a remarkable return on Microsoft\u2019s total investment of approximately $13 billion \u2013 suggesting that bet is shaping up to be one of the most successful investments in the history of technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Business Insider, the potential return rivals some of the most famous technology acquisitions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI recently announced plans to restructure into a for-profit public benefit corporation, a move that will allow it to issue traditional stock to investors. With this change, according to analysts, Microsoft is set to receive a new equity stake in OpenAI that could be worth at least $150 billion. This would be a remarkable return on Microsoft\u2019s total investment of approximately $13 billion \u2013 suggesting that bet is shaping up to be one of the most successful investments in the history of technology. According to a report by Business Insider, the potential return rivals some of the most famous technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}