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Jan 3 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is in the
works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the
artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT,
The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with
direct knowledge of the plans.Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of
March, and hopes to challenge Alphabet-owned search engine
Google,the San Francisco-based technology news website
said in a report.Microsoft said in a blog post last year that it planned to
integrate image-generation software from OpenAI, DALL-E 2, into
Bing.OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.Microsoft had in 2019 backed San Francisco-based artificial
intelligence company OpenAI, offering $1 billion in funding. The
two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial
intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft's Azure
cloud computing service.OpenAI made its latest creation ChatGPT chatbot available
for free public testing on Nov. 30. The chatbot is a software
application designed to mimic human-like conversation based on
user prompts and can respond to a large range of questions while
imitating human speaking styles.
(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal and in Bengaluru; Additional
reporting by Lavanya Ahire in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline
Wong and Dhanya Ann Thoppil)