Just minutes after unveiling ChatGPT competitor Google Bard, Microsoft announces a surprise press conference. The AI race is on between the two giants.
Who will win the AI race between Google and Microsoft? In a few weeks, the two giants have embarked on this great battle from a distance, which could undermine the place and importance of the Google search engine in our daily lives.
This race found its first hot spot this week with the successive announcement of a dedicated Google AI conference on Wednesday, the presentation of Google Bard as an answer to ChatGPT and the surprise announcement of a high-profile conference at Microsoft.
A major surprise conference
For several weeks, rumors have been multiplying around a very important announcement by Microsoft in the field of AI. The Redmond firm has reinvested several billion dollars in OpenAI, the company behind the impressive ChatGPT and Dall-E. We know that she is working on an integration of AI directly into Bing, and we have already been able to get a glimpse of it thanks to a leak.
We are only hours away from the big presentation. To everyone’s surprise, Microsoft sent out press invitations for a conference right at its headquarters in Redmond in the United States. The event will take place this Tuesday, February 7 from 7 p.m., but Microsoft will not offer a live stream. Yes, we are well into 2023.
The holding of the conference in Redmond and the absence of rebroadcasts suggest that the organization of the conference was done in a hurry.
Towards a presentation of OpenAI GPT-4
Beyond the integration of AI to various Microsoft services including Bing, the event of the evening should be the presentation of GPT-4 by OpenAI.
hello from redmond! excited for the event tomorrow pic.twitter.com/b7TUr0ti42
—Sam Altman (@sama) February 6, 2023
The confirmed presence of Sam Altman, the president of OpenAI, in Redmond leaves little room for doubt as to the importance of his company in the event. Bing integration is rumored to be through GPT-4, a major new AI release that already powers ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) and Dall-E (GPT-3).
War is declared
One thing is certain, with this surprise conference, Microsoft intends to attack head-on Google’s main source of income: its search engine. The sequence of the announcement of a Microsoft conference after the presentation by Google of Bard is not the result of chance. The two firms must now convince the general public that the best AI is in their respective services.
It remains to be seen how other players in the sector will react. We are thinking in particular of Apple and Amazon and their Siri and Alexa services.
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