The stock price of Microsoft, an American IT giant, has risen, and its market capitalization, which indicates the value of a company, temporarily exceeded $3 trillion, or approximately 440 trillion yen in Japanese yen, for the first time.
This is due to rising expectations for the generative AI developed by OpenAI, an American venture company with which it has a business alliance.
Microsoft's stock price rose on the New York Stock Exchange on the 24th, and its market capitalization, which indicates the value of a company, temporarily exceeded $3 trillion, or approximately 440 trillion yen in Japanese yen terms, for the first time.
Among American listed companies, the market capitalization of IT giant Apple exceeded $3 trillion for the first time in January of last year.
On the New York Stock Exchange, the stock prices of related IT companies and semiconductor manufacturers continue to rise as expectations for demand for generative AI, which is rapidly expanding in use around the world, continue to rise.
Microsoft has a business alliance with Open AI, an American venture company that develops generative AI and ChatGPT, and the investment amount in Open AI has so far reached $13 billion, or approximately 1.9 trillion yen in Japanese yen. It is said that.
The fact that Microsoft's market capitalization has exceeded $3 trillion shows once again investors' growing expectations for the demand for generative AI, which is being developed and utilized alongside open AI.