ChatGPT founder Altman "joined": Microsoft's market value is approaching Apple's

In the early trading of U.S. stocks on November 20, local time, Microsoft's stock price rose by nearly 2%, and its market value reached a record high of nearly 2.8 trillion U.S. dollars, further approaching Apple. Thanks to this surge, Microsoft's stock price has risen by 57% since the beginning of the year, reaching $377.1 per share in January, while the S&P 500 index rose by about 17.5% during the same period.

According to market analysis, Microsoft's stock price surge was mainly due to its CEO Nadella's announcement that OpenAI founder and former CEO Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will join Microsoft to lead a new AI research team. .

"After Altman chooses Microsoft, many key scientists and developers of OpenAI may choose to leave and switch to Microsoft."

As predicted, hundreds of OpenAI employees, including many senior executives, jointly demanded the resignation of the current board of directors, otherwise they would leave OpenAI and follow Altman to Microsoft.

In addition to employees, OpenAI's current customers are looking for exit opportunities and turn to OpenAI competitors such as Anthropic, Microsoft or Google. However, despite significant personnel changes, applications and APIs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT can still be used normally.