Microsoft wants to integrate ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence into its programs: prepare a million dollar offer

In its new facet of territorial expansion, Microsoft wants to become the leader of search engines and his bet is more than tempting. His intention is to integrate ChatGPT in Word, PowerPoint and Outlookits flagship products. What is the investment and what can be done? to expect from this connection.

This artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot by Open AI It has become the asset of fashion. The characteristics of the chat system based on the GPT-3 language model have attracted the attention of many investors, but Microsoft has been following it for some time.

The Redmond company has already deposited 1,000 million dollars in OpenAI in 2019 and after the recent demonstration of the possibilities of ChatGPT it has been in negotiations for months expand your involvement in the software developer. In the last few hours there had been talk of a offer of 10 billion.

The initial intention of the giant is to add this artificial intelligence to his own bing search engine, according to various US media. A direct message to your main competitor in this storyline: Googlewhich has undisputed dominance.

The official debut could take place in the coming months. The company continues to evaluate what role this chatbot should play in its search engine.

It is also evaluating its accuracy and performance. In any case, the initial launch would be a limited test for a small group of people, according to sources familiar with it.

But it also plans to incorporate this technology into Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other applications in its office suite so that customers can generate text automatically using simple directions, says The Information.

Another benefit of adding this powerful AI is that emails can be written at the request of the customer. This same function applied in Word would serve to speed up the writing of your word processor.

In the case of PowerPoint, where other types of skills are required, the company plans to use DALL-E, another tool developed by OpenAI to create custom images.

The other building block that it also plans to add is Azure, the Microsoft platform that provides access and management of applications and services, which would help the company position itself as a reference in the world of artificial intelligence-oriented cloud computing.

The Investors Behind ChatGPT

Other players would participate in this investment. If completed, it would value OpenAI at $29 billion. To put the number into context: Electronic Arts currently has a market cap of around $34,000 million, while Spotify remains at $16,000 million.

Microsoft’s investment, according to Semafor, would have a complicated structure. The company would keep 75% of the revenue until the investment is recovered. Once done, Microsoft would have 49% of the company, while 2% would be in the hands of the non-profit company OpenAI Inc. and the remaining 49% would be owned by other investors.

It is not known whether the negotiations have been concluded and, if so, what their outcome is. However, Semafor points out that, in documents sent by OpenAI to potential investors, the company said it plans to complete the process by the end of 2022.

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