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BREAKING ChatGPT Will Now Have Access To Real-Time Info From Bing Search Katherine Hamilton Forbes Staff I cover breaking news. Following May 23, 2023, 12:25pm EDT | Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Updated May 23, 2023, 12:43pm EDT Share to
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Microsoft Corp., OpenAI's largest investor, will integrate its Bing search engine into ChatGPT, the company announced Tuesday, shifting the
Artificial intelligence chatbot’s capabilities from only being able to retrieve data before 2021 to providing real-time information to users. OpenAI's ChatGPT will now include data from Microsoft's Bing search engine. NurPhoto via Getty Images Key Facts Microsoft debuted the Bing-informed chatbot at a developer conference in Seattle on Tuesday. ChatGPT launched an “experimental model” in March that knew how to browse the Internet for more up-to-date information—that model, which was only available to ChatGPT Plus subscription members, used Bing, although it was not disclosed at the time . At first, the Bing feature will continue to only be available to subscribers of ChatGPT Plus, a premium-tier service launched in February which costs $20 per month, but will eventually come to the free version of the chatbot, which only draws data from before September 2021. What To Watch For Microsoft’s implementation of AI into Bing has helped yield a 16% increase in traffic to a search engine, which has historically failed to meaningfully compete with Google. At its yearly developer conference in May,
Google unveiled its own plan to integrate generative AI into Google searches. Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE) replaces the blue links that come up when a user searches in Google with a green box of text summarizing an answer to the query, similarly to the response format offered by ChatGPT. Key Background Microsoft in January announced a new, $10 billion investment in OpenAI, building on investments in 2019 and 2021, to make Microsoft’s Azure the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to the AI startup. The close relationship has yielded AI copilots, a feature based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology that helps users perform tasks in Microsoft applications like Bing and Office. Crucial Quote Microsoft founder
Bill Gates said Monday AI threatens to completely upend technology giants like Google and Amazon: “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to
Amazon again,” he said. Further Reading Microsoft to Add Bing Search to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Battle With Google (Bloomberg) Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them (CNBC) Microsoft's Plan To Infuse AI And ChatGPT Into Everything (Forbes) ChatGPT Could Add $40 Billion To Microsoft’s Top Line (Forbes) Google Adding AI To Search Engine For Some Users—Closing In On Microsoft's AI Push (Forbes) Send me a secure tip . Katherine Hamilton Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions