Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during an event at the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington, Feb. 7, 2023.
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Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer Bing as the default search engine for OpenAI’s viral ChatGPT chatbot.
It’s the latest collaboration between the two companies at the center of the generative artificial intelligence boom. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and uses the startup’s AI chatbot technology in searches, emails, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and now to analyze data.
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“This is just the beginning of our plans to work with our OpenAI partners to bring the best of Bing to the ChatGPT experience,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday at Microsoft’s Build conference in Seattle.
In addition to cash, OpenAI relies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud for computing needs.At the same time, these companies are taking on Googlewhich has developed its own generative AI models for search and other products, and is also investing heavily in startups in the field.
According to the latest announcement, subscribers to the ChatGPT Plus service will be able to add Bing search by enabling the plugin, Yusuf Mehdi, head of consumer marketing at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. Users of ChatGPT’s free service will soon be able to do the same.
“ChatGPT will now have a world-class built-in search engine, providing more timely and updated answers via web access,” Mehdi wrote. “ChatGPT answers can now be based on search and web data, and include citations so you can learn more — all directly in chat.”
Microsoft is trying to expand the use of Bing, which has struggled for years to take market share from Google. Amy Hood, the company’s chief financial officer, said in February that every percentage point the company gains in search ad share generates $2 billion in additional revenue.
According to critics, since ChatGPT launched in November, one of its limitations has been its inability to discuss recent events. The Bing chatbot powered by OpenAI technology, which Microsoft announced in February, is different because it uses current information to provide answers to incoming questions.
OpenAI tries to extend the capabilities of ChatGPT Announce The concept of the March plugin. Zhiyou.comAnstar, Shopping and Slack are among the online services rolling out plugins, but there’s a waitlist for others who want to join.
Developers will be able to build plugins for ChatGPT, Bing and its Copilot chatbots that will be used in Microsoft 365 apps like Word and Excel, Microsoft said.
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