Satya Nadella Said Bill Gates Warned Against Investing in OpenAI

Microsoft’s early investments in OpenAI may seem like a no-brainer today, but Satya Nadella says the company and its founder, Bill Gates, saw the decision as a risk back then.
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, less than four years after its founding. The company has since invested over $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker.
But getting that first investment deal across the finish line wasn’t that straightforward, Nadella said in an interview with