How to Invest in OpenAI in 2025

The best way to invest in OpenAI is to buy shares of Microsoft. The technology giant originally invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019. It also teamed up with OpenAI to develop new AI supercomputing technologies for its Azure cloud platform. OpenAI moved its services to the Azure platform as part of the agreement. Microsoft also became OpenAI's preferred partner for marketing new AI technologies.

In 2021, Microsoft upped its investment in OpenAI. Then came the firestorm created by the launch of the AI chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022. Microsoft quickly realized the opportunity. In January 2023, the company confirmed that it extended its partnership with OpenAI into a third phase. A key component of the expanded collaboration was that Microsoft Azure would become OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider.

Microsoft didn't reveal exactly how much additional money it invested in OpenAI in its third round of funding. However, several reports indicated that Microsoft poured another $10 billion into OpenAI. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft reportedly will receive 75% of OpenAI's profits until it recovers its full investment. After that point, Microsoft would own a 49% stake in the smaller AI developer.

In 2023, Microsoft aggressively integrated OpenAI's technology into its applications. Microsoft's Bing search engine uses GPT-4, the most advanced AI large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI so far.

Microsoft also introduced OpenAI technology into its Microsoft 365 productivity apps. The new feature, Microsoft 365 Copilot, helps users generate first drafts of documents in Microsoft Word and new presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Copilot enables users to quickly analyze trends in Microsoft Excel and easily create high-quality data visualizations. It summarizes email threads and suggests replies to emails in Outlook. It summarizes discussion points in the Microsoft Teams business communications platform and recommends action items.

Of course, besides its ties with OpenAI, there are other reasons to consider investing in Microsoft stock. The company ranks as a leader in several hot technology areas beyond AI, notably cloud services, gaming, and quantum computing.

Social media giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is going all-in on AI. The company is investing billions of dollars into five major AI opportunities: Improved advertising, more engaging experiences, business messaging, Meta AI, and AI devices.

Meta Platforms sees massive monetization opportunities across those opportunities. Meta AI is its internally developed AI chatbot, which has almost a billion monthly active users. The company also sees immense potential in AI devices, like smart glasses. It partnered with Ray-Ban to develop its popular Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. With more than 1 billion people wearing glasses, the company believes that AI glasses could become a huge market over the next five to 10 years.

The company is also focused on building full general intelligence. The tech titan created its Meta Superintelligence Labs in mid-2025, hiring several prominent AI executives and researchers. The company's vision is to build "personal superintelligence for everyone."

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) isn't a direct investor in OpenAI. However, the semiconductor stock is a major beneficiary of the AI megatrend.

The company experienced a massive acceleration in demand for its chips in 2023 as customers raced to capitalize on the AI gold rush. Nvidia's revenue skyrocketed 69% in its fiscal first quarter of 2026 to a record $44.1 billion, driven by record data center revenue (up 73% year over year to $22.6 billion). That surging revenue drove a stunning 73% increase in its earnings.

“Our breakthrough Blackwell NVL72 AI supercomputer — a ‘thinking machine’ designed for reasoning — is now in full-scale production across system makers and cloud service providers,” said CEO and founder Jensen Huang, in Nvidia's fiscal 2026 first-quarter earnings press release. He continued: “Global demand for Nvidia's AI infrastructure is incredibly strong. AI inference token generation has surged tenfold in just one year, and as AI agents become mainstream, the demand for AI computing will accelerate.”

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) organization seeking to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI). Few companies have taken the world by storm quite like OpenAI. The company's ChatGPT chatbot has become a viral sensation. It had amassed more than 500 million weekly users by mid-2025.

You can't invest directly in OpenAI -- at least, not right now. However, there are several ways to invest indirectly in the ChatGPT creator. You can also invest in companies that stand to benefit from the explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) that OpenAI has helped ignite.

In this article, we'll explain all you need to know about investing in OpenAI.

2. Meta Platforms

3. Nvidia

Related investing topics

The bottom line on OpenAI

OpenAI definitely stands out as one of the leaders in generative AI. ChatGPT isn't likely to be a temporary fad. The power of OpenAI's technology could help usher in a new era where AI plays a much greater role in almost every aspect of society. Although you can't invest directly in OpenAI, you can buy the stocks of companies that stand to profit from its advances in AI.