Mashable: Since its launch in November, ChatGPT has had more than 100 million users.

According to a new report, Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun said at an AI event last Thursday that OpenAI's upcoming GPT-4 version will soon let customers turn text into video. Microsoft has put billions of dollars into OpenAI, which makes it one of the biggest investors in the company.

Braun says that the more advanced AI will be shown to the public this week, putting an end to any rumors about when it would be released. According to Braun, whom Heise cited, Microsoft will launch GPT-4 next week; there, we will have multimodal models that will give completely different possibilities—for example, videos.

Silicon Valley is buzzing with anticipation for OpenAI's new model, but the company's founder, Sam Altman, recently told the venture capital journal StrictlyVC that people are begging to be disappointed, and they will be.

Earlier, Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, agreed that "less hype would be helpful," but she added that the opposite could also be true.

Insider says that even though competitors like Google and Meta have built text-to-video capabilities into their own AI, this is a big improvement for the very popular ChatGPT, which could only speak before.

Microsoft is said to have put more than $10 billion into OpenAI to help power its own Bing chatbot. However, it is "quite likely" that Bing is already using GPT-4, even though the companies say it is using the same GPT-3.5 model as OpenAI's famous chatbot.

Since its launch in November, ChatGPT has had more than 100 million users. But Elon Musk, who helped start OpenAI and was a board member until he quit in 2018, has spoken out against the company's leadership. He tweeted last month that OpenAI had changed from being an open-source (hence the term "open" AI), non-profit organization to acting as a counterweight to Google. Instead, it is now a closed-source, maximum-profit business that is essentially under Microsoft's control.