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Microsoft and Google have recently made big investments in two of the most valuable companies in artificial intelligence (AI).OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, has received a staggering investment of USD 10 billion (£7.8 billion) from Microsoft, while Google has invested USD 300 million in Anthropic. The companies' financial support for AI has pushed an ongoing rivalry into the public spotlight. Google's struggle for dominance with Microsoft is increasingly at the forefront of discussions about AI's future success. Google…

Like many other companies like Google, Microsoft too is heavily investing in AI. Its multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is just another example of the company's vision, led by CEO Satya Nadella. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Bard have vast capabilities, their extensive sizes require large computing resources, leading to limitations. To counter this, Microsoft has recently introduced Orca, a 13-billion parameter model that learns to imitate the reasoning…

Microsoft, led by Satya Nadella, was one of the first to jump onto the artificial intelligence bandwagon and as a result, it finds itself with the early bird advantage in this emerging space. It was quick to invest upwards of $10 billion in OpenAI and it swiftly released its ‘Copilots' across the majority of its products and services to enable developers, businesses as well as individuals in leveraging AI capabilities. In a recent interview with Wired, Nadella opened up about the vision around AI, what made him pull the…

Ameca can speak French, Chinese or dozens of other languages, instantly compose a poem or sketch a cat on request. Ask for a smile, and you'll get a clenched grin on her rubbery blue face.Ameca is a humanoid robot powered by generative artificial intelligence that gives it the ability to respond to questions and commands and interact with people. It's one of hundreds of robots on display this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, or ICRA, in London, where visitors got a glimpse at the future.…

The government needs to work faster to regulate AI, which has more potential for the good of humanity than any other invention preceding it, CNN Business reported, citing Brad Smith, Microsoft president and vice chair. In a US news channel programme on Sunday, Smith said uses of artificial intelligence (AI) are almost “ubiquitous” in medicine and drug discovery and diagnosing diseases, “in scrambling the resources of, say, the Red Cross or others in a disaster to find those who are most vulnerable where buildings have…

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp's co-founder, on Monday said the technology race to win is development of the top artificially intelligent agent, poised to disrupt search-engine, productivity and online shopping businesses. Speaking at AI Forward 2023, an event in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc and SV Angel, Gates said it would disappoint him if Microsoft were not in the running, though there was a 50% chance the top player to emerge will be a startup. He said Inflection AI, co-founded by entrepreneur Reid…

The artificial intelligence (AI) world was rocked after one of the most influential people in the segment, OpenAI founder and ChatGPT creator Sam Altman, made some shocking statements during his first-ever testimony in front of the US Senate. He highlighted the dangers around misuse of the technology, the potential risk of misinformation as well as the fear of job loss if AI is allowed to grow without regulation. But while that has dominated the news cycle, other interesting things have happened today. A group of…

Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday is expected to unveil more artificial intelligence in its products to answer the latest competition from Microsoft Corp, which has threatened its perch atop the nearly $300-billion search advertising market.Through an internal project code-named Magi, Google has looked to infuse its namesake engine with generative artificial intelligence, technology that can answer questions with human-like prose and derive new content from past data. The effort will be the most closely watched as…

OpenAI's ChatGPT has sent companies across the world scrambling to jump on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon in order not to be left behind by niftier rivals. Now, MakeMyTrip has announced that it, and Microsoft, will work together to bring the benefits of AI to the travel industry.MakeMyTrip, in a statement said, that to make travel planning more inclusive and accessible, it will introduce voice-assisted booking in Indian languages. This mission will be powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Azure…

Aditya Chopra isn't looking for a new job, but recruiters keep calling him anyway. The 36-year-old data-science specialist works in artificial intelligence, perhaps the most coveted experience on the planet after OpenAI demonstrated the breakthroughs of ChatGPT. Chopra, who works outside of New Delhi, sees friends in the field get pay hikes of 35% to 50% each time they switch jobs. “There's a real shortage of data and AI talent,” he said.An AI hiring frenzy is ricocheting around the world, from Silicon Valley to Europe,…