Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Bill Gates warned him that investing in OpenAI would be like setting $1 billion on fire

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 1billioninOpenAIin2019,lessthanfouryearsafteritsfounding.Thecompanyhassinceinvestedover1 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 "TPBN," a tech-focused YouTube show, on Tuesday. " ...