Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a $10 billion funding in OpenAI, the startup that created the viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is planning to combine it into Office merchandise and Bing search.
This is a giant deal. If profitable, it should deliver highly effective AI instruments to the plenty. So what would ChatGPT-powered Microsoft merchandise appear like? While neither Microsoft or OpenAI had been prepared to reply our questions, we all know sufficient to make some knowledgeable, clever guesses. Hint: it’s in all probability excellent news for those who discover creating PowerPoint shows and answering emails boring. Read the total story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
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