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Microsoft (MSFT +3.02%) is reported to be investing $10 billion into OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The company's cloud resources, business customers, and large amount of data resources make it a perfect partner to improve the artificial intelligence models and create a business model for it. Travis Hoium covers why Microsoft isn't doing this for headlines, it's playing the long game.

*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Jan. 12, 2023. The video was published on Jan. 17, 2023.

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Travis Hoium
Travis Hoium is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst covering solar energy, technology, and growth stocks. Before The Motley Fool, Travis was a mechanical engineer at 3M and founded a virtual reality company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota.
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