OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the next generation of workers. The company has sold more than 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to about 35 public universities for use by students and faculty, according to purchase orders reviewed by Bloomberg. By contrast, Microsoft Corp., which typically bundles its Copilot assistant with existing software...