Microsoft aims for AI-powered version of Bing: Report
The Information reported on Tuesday (Jan. 3) that Microsoft is preparing to release a version of its search engine Bing that will make use of the artificial intelligence powering OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT. The allegation was based on interviews with two people who have firsthand knowledge of the plans.
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According to the claim from the San Francisco-based technology news website, Microsoft could release the new feature by the end of March and intends to compete with Alphabet-owned search engine Google.
Microsoft announced in a blog post from last year that it intended to incorporate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 image-generation tool into Bing.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for a comment, while OpenAI declined.
Microsoft invested $1 billion in the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup OpenAI in 2019. In order to build artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service, the two have established a multi-year agreement.
On November 30, OpenAI made its ChatGPT chatbot available for free public testing. The chatbot is a piece of software created to replicate human-like dialogue in response to user input and can answer a wide variety of queries while mimicking human speaking styles.
