Microsoft to expand ChatGPT access as OpenAI investment rumors swirl

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, with the currently free-to-use artificial writing software being harnessed for a wide range of tasks.
Microsoft is expanding access to ChatGPT software in one of its products, following its backing of OpenAI.
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service was launched in 2021 and allows cloud computing customers to apply language AI models for generating marketing content and summarizing service tickets.
With a $10 billion (€9.2 billion) investment in OpenAI on top of its $1 billion (€925 million) stake announced last year, Microsoft announced ChatGPT will soon be available through Azure OpenAI.
Microsoft said it is vetting customers' applications to mitigate potential abuse of the software, and its filters can screen for harmful content users might input or the tech might produce.
Startups developing such software have attracted massive venture capital investments at a time when funding has otherwise dried up.