--- title: "Microsoft Working on Deal to Add OpenAI’s GPT Into MS Word" description: "Microsoft is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest upwards of $10 billion into the AI company and use its products in its Office suite." date: "2023-01-11" modified: "2023-01-11" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-openai-office-deal" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "chatgpt" - "microsoft" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # Microsoft Working on Deal to Add OpenAI’s GPT Into MS Word ![Microsoft is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest upwards of $10 billion into the AI company and use its products in its Office suite.]() *\Image: Futurism\* ## Clippy 2.0 Microsoft is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest upwards of $10 billion into the artificial intelligence company — and use its powerful text generator tools not just in its [Bing search engine](), but in its Office suite as well. First [reported by *The Information*](), insiders say Microsoft is looking to strengthen its existent partnership with the Elon Musk-founded AI company. They even say that the tech giant has already been quietly integrating OpenAI's text generation software into Word via its autocomplete suggestions. According to other unnamed sources who spoke to *[Semafor]()* and [*Bloomberg*](), that relationship-strengthening investment is to the tune of about $10 billion. The latter publication added that the deal between the companies — which have been working together on Microsoft's Azure AI system [since at least 2019](), when Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI — have been in negotiations about the proposed deal for months. "We do not comment on speculation," a Microsoft spokesperson told us in response to questions about the reporting. ## Mean Girls If the deal goes through (or, indeed, if Microsoft is already using OpenAI's text-generating algorithms to strengthen its autocomplete suggestions), it could represent a sea change in the public-facing availability of the company's next-gen AI — especially in the wake of its release of ChatGPT, which has spurred controversy for churning out text that [in some contexts is almost indistinguishable]() from that written by a human. Since releasing ChatGPT, which is built on its GPT-3 language generation model, OpenAI has caught tons of [flak from academics]() and others concerned with the [lengthening specter of AI](). The [one-time nonprofit](), which later switched to a for-profit model and by October [valued at $20 billion](), has also reportedly been in talks with other investors, and could soon be [worth nearly $30 billion]() if those deals go through. It's safe to say that OpenAI is, at this stage, the most popular girl in school — and like with anything else that's popular, it's subject to levels of scrutiny of the sort that haunt the dreams of other startup founders. **More on ChatGPT:** [*ChatGPT Officially Banned from NYC Schools. Related: Good Luck With That*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()