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| Microsoft intends to add ChatGPT to its cloud service soon |
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced plans to soon add the company's popular (ChatGPT) chat program (OpenAI) to its cloud service (Azure) as part of the current relationship between the two companies, and the sources said that the American software giant is targeting a larger share. In the community. artificial intelligence technology.
In a blog post, Microsoft announced the wide availability of the service (Azure OpenAI), which was previously available to a limited customer base since its launch in 2021.
The company says that the service will provide its customers in the cloud with access to various tools (OpenAI), such as the image. . This enables Azure customers to use OpenAI products in their own applications that run in the cloud.
Earlier this month, SEMAFOR quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Microsoft is in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI over the next few years. The sources said that the latter’s funding is estimated at about $29 billion, and this amount includes new investments from Microsoft.
Microsoft, already a partner in OpenAI thanks to a $1 billion investment in 2019, wants to strengthen its presence in the AI market to make its offering more competitive against those of Google, Amazon and Meta.
Microsoft has been testing technology integration (OpenAI) in its suite of office applications: Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for some time, and information reporting.
The company also plans to release a version of the Bing web browser that uses ChatGPT to answer search queries. This new feature is expected to be rolled out in early March.
Separately, Google subsidiary DeepMind has announced that it will soon launch a competitor to ChatGPT, promising that its product will be more secure.