Friday, January 20, 2023

ChatGPT's next big challenge: Helping Microsoft to challenge Google search - Liam Tung, ZD Net

Microsoft's $1 billion investment in OpenAI that helped produce ChatGPT could soon be used to improve its search engine, Bing, according to a story from The Information. Bing could be getting ChatGPT-enhanced search capabilities as early as March in a move that capitalizes on Microsoft's $1 billion investment in Open AI in 2019, which included an exclusive multi-year cloud-computing partnership to build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies. Two sources with knowledge of Microsoft's plans told The Information that Microsoft is gearing up to launch a version of Bing that uses ChatGPT AI to answer some search queries, offering a different way of producing results than the list of links offered by Google Search and Bing. It could help change the status quo in the search market -- currently dominated by Google.