Tech & Society
Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
Bing
Tech & Society
Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models
Microsoft is looking to control the expense of its reliance on OpenAI’s models. Microsoft seeks to build leaner language models that perform nearly as well as ChatGPT but cost less to run.
Tech & Society
Chatbots for Productivity: Microsoft extends Copilot to 365 and Windows.
Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered assistants will roll out in the coming months.
Tech & Society
GenAI Violated Copyright? No Problem: Microsoft commits to cover copyright violation costs for GenAI services.
Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...
Business
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.
Tech & Society
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...
Business
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.