The AI bet that gives Microsoft an edge

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Editor's note: Microsoft is looking to take the lead in artificial intelligence. Amid all the buzz around OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT last month, The Information reports that the Redmond giant will integrate the AI chatbot into Bing to generate responses to search queries. Furthermore, in a separate report, the publication claims that Microsoft will also incorporate ChatGPT into its Office suite to allow users to follow prompts to generate text through AI. There’s more. At a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that every product of the company will have some AI capabilities going forward, completely transforming them. Apart from the eye-catching public demonstrations of generative AI in the recent past with ChatGPT, a chatbot that can answer queries and produce text in natural-sounding language, and DALL-E, a text-to-image generation system, Microsoft believes that the technology behind the service—large language models—could have a deeper impact across industries. And while everyone has latched on to the reports and rumours emerging from Microsoft in the last few weeks, it looks like the company was prescient in …