Microsoft is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge Web browser with artificial intelligence as it steps up its rivalry with Google.
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Google will launch a chatbot service and more AI for its search engine, an answer to Microsoft in the two companies’ rivalry to lead a new wave of computing.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to invest $10-billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, which will value the San Francisco-based firm at $29-billion.
Microsoft is working on a version of its search engine that uses the artificial intelligence behind chatbot ChatGPT.
Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple and others to maintain its spot as the top search engine illegally, the US justice department said.
Billions of people use Google because it’s the best, not because of deals the company made to stay competitive, Google’s lawyer said on Friday.
Google has asked a judge hearing the US justice department’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant to compel Microsoft to turn over documents, saying it has failed to comply with a subpoena.
Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was blocked in China due to an accidental technical error rather than an attempt at censorship, according to people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, rendering yet another Western Internet service inaccessible to the world’s largest online population.