It’s shocking, given that Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI. With its early Bing Chat launch, Microsoft pulled ahead of both OpenAI and Google, offering the first chatbot that could search the web. Microsoft even had early access to a more advanced GPT model than the one you could use in ChatGPT at the time. Then everything changed.

Wall Street expects about $73.9 billion in revenue by Microsoft for the latest quarter, according to multiple reports by investment firms. That marks a 14 percent increase in growth year over year. Wall Street expects operating income of $32.1 billion. [RELATED: Microsoft ‘Significantly’ Boosts Partner Funding For Copilot, Azure Incentives]