Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has played the rollout of ChatGPT incredibly. By investing $10 billion into ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI and integrating the service with Bing, Microsoft put itself in the centre of the conversation. And the conversation quickly turned to how Microsoft challenging Google and threatening their dominance in search.
As Satya said to The Verge, “I hope with our innovation they [Google] will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance. I want people to know that we made them dance”.
And Google did dance. They rushed their ChatGPT equivalent, Google Bard, and in its first demonstration it made a factual error when returning information about the James Webb Space Telescope. That error saw Google’s parent company Alphabet lose $100 billion in market value.
There are now a few different companies that have developed and launched their generative AI chatbot. The biggest winner so far is a company that didn’t develop their own – Microsoft. This article takes a look at where this $10 billion investment in OpenAI may lead and where Microsoft sees its future, both with AI and outside of it.
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