OpenAI will start using Microsoft’s Bing as the default search experience for ChatGPT, Microsoft CEO announces
Microsoft Corp., the presumptive leader in the generative-AI race, is ready to extend its lead.
The software giant MSFT on Tuesday laid out a technology roadmap, bolstered by testimonials from customers such as General Motors Co. GM, at its Build developers conference. Microsoft unveiled updates to artificial-intelligence tools that let developers code more quickly, shaving the time required to create a developer box from two weeks to a matter of minutes.
“The concept of a dream machine … the human-computer symbiosis … is exciting,” Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said in a keynote speech. “We went from the bicycle to the steam engine with ChatGPT.”
“It is important that this technology reaches the world,” said Nadella, who stressed that Microsoft has built safety into its AI offerings.
Underlining his point, nearly every session at the three-day summit revolved around AI, technology’s magic word of the moment and next big thing all wrapped into one. Fittingly, the conference coincided with Nadella’s announcement that OpenAI will start using Microsoft’s Bing as the default search experience for ChatGPT. Microsoft also announced a Windows Copilot to guide AI use.
Microsoft’s stake in AI pioneer OpenAI has given it a sizable advantage in the market, but recent weeks have seen a spate of announcements other companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL GOOG Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META, SAP SAP, ServiceNow Inc. NOW and Nvidia Corp. NVDA, and Box Inc. BOX.
