Microsoft will hold an event tonight, February 7, at 7pm Italian. Last week, the company sent out press invitations to an in-person event at its Redmond headquarters, which was announced publicly shortly beforehand. The timing is suspect: the announcement was disclosed minutes after Google made official its ChatGPT rival, Bard.
The event could focus on one of the most awaited new arrivals on Bing: the implementation of ChatGPT in the search engine, based on an extension of the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. The invitation states that Satya Nadella “will share some progress on some exciting projects”but no further details are known.
Microsoft Event for February 7: Will it announce the arrival of ChatGPT on Bing?
The event will be held a few days after Microsoft formalized a multibillion-dollar agreement with OpenAI, through which it becomes the company’s exclusive partner with Microsoft cloud services that will feed all the workloads required by OpenAI on products, services API and search. Google officially entered the sphere, announcing Bard, an “experimental conversational artificial intelligence service” currently being tested by selected users, but which should expand to a wider audience in the coming weeks.
Based on some rumors leaked in the last few days, Microsoft’s proposal based on Artificial Intelligence will be implemented on the Bing search engine. Some users have identified in the service a new chat section with a user interface similar to that of a chatbot, which could be used to ask questions and receive answers through AI. In the screenshot, the reference to the “new Bing” is explicit, through which the user can “ask real questions and get complete answers”.
According to other rumors, Microsoft is planning to implement the OpenAI technology also on other proprietary services, both consumer and corporate. In addition to Bing, in fact, AI could arrive on Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, while Teams Premium was recently launched with features based on OpenAI. To appease the first doubts on the matter we can only wait for 7 pm and the Microsoft launch event, while tomorrow 8 February Google will hold another event that will focus on research and artificial intelligence. The two events and the sudden announcement of Bard by the Big G make it clear how much buzz there is around conversational AI technologies and how big techs are interested in implementing them wherever the user can benefit from them.
Unfortunately, the Microsoft event on February 7 will not be streamed on the web, so users will not be able to follow it live.
