Microsoft is pulling in something like $45 billion a year on licensing fees on these technologies. Their plan here with chatbots is essentially use them to drive more revenue to that thing. One analyst has a model, which I think is debatable, where he's talking about by 2027, somewhere between $10 billion at the low end and $100 billion at the high end of additional revenue for this company.
Microsoft is a household name when it comes to Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, but it’s not the first name many people think of when it comes to cool new tech. At least until recently. The company’s big investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has now launched it to the forefront of tech innovation.
Bloomberg Businessweek writer Max Chafkin joins this episode to tell the story of how the company that once brought us Clippy the interactive paperclip became a power player in the new frontier of artificial intelligence.
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