Microsoft Corp. is bringing its Bing search engine to OpenAI Inc.\u2019s ChatGPT, further tightening ties with the artificial intelligence startup in a bid to challenge\u00a0Google.<\/p>\n
Bing will be part of the premium\u00a0ChatGPT Plus service starting Tuesday, Microsoft said, and the search engine will come to the regular version of the chatbot soon.<\/p>\n
Using Bing lets customers get up-to-the-minute information, whereas ChatGPT has been trained only on data through 20 September 2021.<\/p>\n
Microsoft is OpenAI\u2019s biggest investor and a key partner, giving it an edge in the race to weave artificial intelligence into more software products.<\/p>\n
The startup, whose chatbot became a viral hit in the past year, has helped Microsoft attract customers to\u00a0a cloud-based service that lets its Azure clients use OpenAI products.<\/p>\n
Azure OpenAI now has 4,500 customers, including Volvo AB, Ikea,\u00a0Mercedes-Benz Group AG and\u00a0Shell Plc. That\u2019s up from 2,500 customers at the end of last quarter.<\/p>\n
Microsoft unveiled the Bing ChatGPT update Tuesday at a developer conference in Seattle.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, OpenAI started adding\u00a0web browsing<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as an optional capability\u00a0to its\u00a0paid Plus tier.<\/p>\n That\u00a0relied partly on Bing, though the arrangement\u00a0wasn\u2019t disclosed at the time.<\/p>\n Chief executive officer Satya Nadella has been refocusing Microsoft\u2019s products around AI programs called copilots \u2014 assistants that help users perform tasks in Bing and Office, as well as security and finance software, based on OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4 technology.<\/p>\n The software maker is trying to boost sales, attract more cloud-computing business and better compete with Google in search.<\/p>\n So far, the OpenAI partnership\u00a0has helped Microsoft position itself at the forefront of a rapidly churning market for new types of AI tools.<\/p>\n With the proliferation of AI-generated information, Microsoft said it will watermark such content so people know it\u2019s not human-made.<\/p>\n The company also said it will make those same tools available to developers to use.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re giving you a bunch of amazing media provenance tools that will help users understand when they are seeing generated content or not,\u201d chief technology officer Kevin Scott told attendees at the conference.<\/p>\n Scott didn\u2019t elaborate on the technological underpinnings of these tools, except to say that they are \u201ccryptographic\u201d watermarks.<\/p>\n Microsoft also is letting outside software developers and companies write programs that tie\u00a0into its\u00a0OpenAI-based artificial intelligence software.<\/p>\n As part of that push, Instacart Inc., Redfin Corp., Zillow Group Inc. and Kayak Software Corp. will work with Bing\u2019s AI, Microsoft said. Adobe Inc. and Atlassian Corp., meanwhile, will release features for Microsoft\u2019s corporate AI software that can be used with the Office suite.<\/p>\n In order to let other companies write features and programs that make use of these AI products, OpenAI is allowing them to develop so-called plugins to work with ChatGPT.<\/p>\n Microsoft said Tuesday that it will use a similar model.\u00a0Companies and programmers can use the same plugins across ChatGPT and Microsoft\u2019s own consumer and corporate AI software.<\/p>\n About 50 software makers, including\u00a0ServiceNow Inc., are developing these sorts of plugins for Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0corporate AI assistant<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Called Microsoft 365 Copilot, the software is being tested with hundreds of customers. By the time it\u2019s released to everyone, Microsoft pledges to have thousands of plugins for the corporate software.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the Redmond, Washington-based company also discussed\u00a0a new copilot, this one for Windows 11, starting with a preview version in June.<\/p>\n Windows Copilot will be accessible from a button on the computer screen\u2019s taskbar, which opens a side panel that customers can use as an assistant.<\/p>\n It will help them take actions like copying and pasting text, as well as rewriting, summarising and explaining content.<\/p>\n Windows users can also ask it questions as they do with the Bing AI chat.<\/p>\n Using Bing lets customers get up-to-the-minute information, whereas ChatGPT has been trained only on data through 20 September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":475849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,62992,83065,84211,123,45266,20431],"class_list":["post-492995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-bing-search","tag-chatgpt","tag-language-models","tag-microsoft","tag-openai","tag-satya-nadella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493005,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492995\/revisions\/493005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Facebook\u2019s open-source language model can recognise 4,000 languages and \u201cspeak\u201d in 1,100<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"