Microsoft says Bing can be default search engine for ChatGPT users

Microsoft said Tuesday that it volition connection Bing arsenic the default hunt motor successful OpenAI's viral ChatGPT chatbot.

It's the latest tie-up betwixt the 2 companies, which are astatine the halfway of the roar successful generative artificial intelligence. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars successful OpenAI and is utilizing the startup's AI chatbot technology wrong search, email, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and present to analyse data.

"This is conscionable the commencement of what we program to bash with our partners successful OpenAI to bring the champion of Bing to the ChatGPT experience," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said onstage astatine Microsoft's Build league successful Seattle connected Tuesday.

In summation to cash, OpenAI relies connected Microsoft's Azure unreality for computing needs. In tandem, the companies are taking connected Google, which has developed its ain generative AI models for hunt and different products and is besides investing heavily successful startups successful the space.

With the latest announcement, subscribers to the ChatGPT Plus work volition beryllium capable to adhd Bing hunt by enabling a plugin, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's user selling chief, wrote successful a blog post. Users of ChatGPT's escaped work volition soon beryllium capable to bash the same.

"ChatGPT volition present person a world-class hunt motor built-in to supply timelier and much up-to-date answers with entree from the web," Mehdi wrote. "Now, ChatGPT answers tin beryllium grounded by hunt and web information and see citations truthful you tin larn much — each straight from wrong chat."

Microsoft is trying to grow the usage of Bing, which has for years struggled to summation marketplace stock from Google. For each percent constituent of hunt advertizing stock the institution picks up, it would make $2 cardinal successful further revenue, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said successful February.

Since ChatGPT became disposable successful November, 1 of its limitations, according to critics, is that it hasn't been capable to sermon caller events. The Bing chatbot, powered by OpenAI's technology, that Microsoft announced successful February was antithetic due to the fact that it was capable to gully connected existent accusation to supply answers to typed questions.

OpenAI sought to widen the capableness of ChatGPT erstwhile it announced the conception of plugins successful March. Expedia, Instacart, Shopify and Slack are among the online services that person launched plugins, but there's a waitlist for others who privation to join.

Microsoft said developers volition beryllium capable to physique plugins that enactment successful ChatGPT, Bing and its Copilot chatbot coming to Microsoft 365 apps specified arsenic Word and Excel.

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