The Wall Street Journal’s sources have told this publication that Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia are in talks to invest in the creator of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence startup OpenAI.
Although the Wall Street Journal did not say how much Apple is investing in OpenAI or have more details about their negotiations, it says that with this new round of investment, the value of OpenAI will reach more than 100 billion dollars.
In addition to Apple, Microsoft, which has been one of the main investors of OpenAI, apparently wants to increase its investments in this startup. Bloomberg also said in another report that Nvidia is also in talks to invest in the ChatGPT giant.
Apple’s collaboration with OpenAI the creator of ChatGPT
Apple has already announced that ChatGPT will come to Siri in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia before the end of the year.
With this partnership, Siri can directly display ChatGPT responses to users’ questions and other requests. Additionally, ChatGPT will be added to Apple’s system-wide writing tool feature, allowing users to generate text and images. Apple says ChatGPT will support the latest OpenAI GPT-4o model on its platforms.
iPhone, iPad and Mac users can use ChatGPT for free without creating an account, and ChatGPT Plus subscribers can use their accounts on these devices with access to its paid features. Apple also said that OpenAI does not store ChatGPT requests sent from its devices, and users’ IP addresses are hidden.
Apple Intelligence features have been available to developers as a beta version of iOS 18.1 since last month, but ChatGPT is not yet available.
OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, doubling the number of users since November last year and about 10 months ago.
