Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event at the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington, February 7, 2023.
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Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will offer Bing as the default search engine on OpenAI’s viral ChatGPT chatbot.
It’s the latest pairing between two corporations that are at the center of a boom in generative AI. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and is using AI chatbot technology in search, email, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and now for data analytics.
“That is just the starting of what we plan to do with our partners at OpenAI to bring the better of Bing to the ChatGPT experience,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on stage at the Microsoft Construct conference in Seattle on Tuesday.
Along with money, OpenAI relies on the Microsoft Azure cloud for its computing needs. Corporations take part in tandem Googlewhich has developed its own generative AI models for search and other products, and invests heavily in space start-ups.
With the latest announcements, ChatGPT Plus subscribers will be capable of add Bing search by enabling the plugin, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s head of consumer marketing, wrote in a blog post. Users of the free ChatGPT service will soon be capable of do the same.
“ChatGPT will now have a built-in world-class search engine that provides faster and more up-to-date responses with web access,” wrote Mehdi. “Now ChatGPT replies can be search and network based and include quotes so you’ll be able to learn more – all right from inside chat.”
Microsoft is attempting to expand the use of Bing, which has struggled for years to realize market share from Google. For each percentage point of search ad share the company collects, it will generate a further $2 billion in revenue, chief financial officer Amy Hood said in February.
Since ChatGPT became available in November, one in all its limitations, in response to critics, is the inability to debate recent events. The OpenAI-powered Bing chatbot that Microsoft announced in February was different in that it was capable of draw on real-time information to reply questions you typed.
OpenAI was attempting to extend ChatGPT’s capabilities when it did announced March plugin concept. Expeditioninstacart, Shopify and Slack are amongst the online services that have launched plugins, but there’s a waiting list for others who want to affix.
Microsoft said developers will be capable of create plug-ins that work on ChatGPT, Bing and its Copilot chatbot, which is able to appear in Microsoft 365 apps like Word and Excel.
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