Microsoft & OpenAI Partnership
The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has drawn a lot of attention in the tech community, mainly after news broke in October 2022 that Microsoft was in talks to make a second, tens of billions-of-dollars investment in the AI business.
Microsoft’s initial investment in OpenAI in 2019 included an agreement to integrate some elements of GPT in Bing.
Since then, Microsoft and OpenAI have been collaborating on ways to integrate GPT into Bing to improve the user experience, though it isn’t clear whether the current version of GPT will power the service.
OpenAI has had a number of big name investors in its rise to fame with names including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. But when it comes to the ChatGPT and its real-life uses, it's one of OpenAI's biggest investors that will get to use it first.
Microsoft threw a massive $1 billion investment into OpenAI and now the company is looking to implement ChatGPT into its search engine Bing. Microsoft has been battling to take Google on as a search engine for years now, looking for any feature that can help it stand out.
Last year, Bing held less than 10 per cent of the world's internet searches. While that sounds tiny, it is more testament to Google's grip on the market with Bing standing out as one of the most popular options.
With plans to implement ChatGPT into its system, Bing is hoping to better understand users' queries and offer a more conversational search engine.
It is currently unclear how much Microsoft plans to implement ChatGPT into Bing, however this will likely begin with stages of testing. A full implementation could risk Bing being caught up with GPT-3's occasional bias which can really delve deep into stereotypes and politically
How Microsoft Currently Utilizes OpenAI’s Technology
Microsoft is currently employing OpenAI’s cloud services in tools that let users create text, code, and imagery using straightforward instructions and train machine-learning models using internet data.
Some of Microsoft’s enterprise customer apps have been integrated with OpenAI’s technologies. The company also makes GPT-3 and Dall-E 2 available to enterprise customers as part of its Azure server and compute-power renting business.
In June 2022, Microsoft unveiled Copilot, a subscription service that uses OpenAI’s tools to assist software engineers in automatically generating code.
The next phase of the partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft appears to be integration with Bing, which raises several concerns as these models can occasionally produce offensive or inaccurate.
With all of its AI advancements, even Google has been hesitant to introduce a chatbot like ChatGPT. What makes Microsoft so confident it can integrate ChatGPT into Bing search without putting consumer trust and reputation at risk?
Microsoft hasn’t revealed how it will mitigate potential mistakes or stop problems with objectionable content like those with its Tay chatbot in 2016.
Spokespeople for Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on this article.
It’s worth noting that OpenAI intends to charge for ChatGPT in the future, like the fees it charges programmers who use GPT to create text-generating bots. That means Bing might become one of the only free access points to GPT.
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