‘You're going to burn this $1 billion’: Satya Nadella recalls when Bill Gates doubted Microsoft's investment in OpenAI

‘You're going to burn this $1 billion’: Satya Nadella recalls when Bill Gates doubted Microsoft's investment in OpenAI

In a recent interview with tech-focused YouTube channel TBPN, Satya Nadella, who is now the CEO of Microsoft, recalled how Bill Gates had expressed his lack of confidence when the company invested in OpenAI.

OpenAI may be the world's most valuable private company right now, but when Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the AI startup in 2019, it was nowhere close to seeing such success. The bet in the… [+3176 chars]