Microsoft is holding a surprise event and it might be about Bing and ChatGPT
It’s so secret, they won’t even live stream
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Microsoftis holding a surprise, and secretive, launch event at its Redmond headquarters on Tuesday, Feb 7. It might beBing ChatGPT integration’s coming out to party or something else altogether, we just don’t know yet.
TheWindows 11parent company sent out invites to a select group of tech media and analysts last week, but is only allowing everyone to talk about it – after some possible leaks – today.
In the invite the company says it’s “sharing progress on a few exciting projects” and that CEO Satya Nadella will lead the discussion. What’s missing here is, well, a number of things. The company has no plans to live stream the event; it’s also offered zero information about the kinds of products, projects, or even product categories that will be discussed.
What we do and don’t know
What we do know is that there will be hands-on demos. That could be hardware like aMicrosoft Surface Duo 3smartphone. But with the recent apparentBing ChatGPTleaks, many people are betting we’ll see an artificially intelligence-inseminated search engine instead.
As described byOwen Yin(viaThe Verge), who got brief access to what might be the next generation of Microsoft’s search engine,Bingwould integrate a veryChatGPT-like interface that could accept natural-language queries and return some very smart results. The standard Bing search engine would, based on this possible leak, live on beside the AI integration.
Microsoft’s news comes just asGoogleunveiled its ChatGPT rival,Bard AI, in a very limited release but with a promise of it coming to Google Search soon.
Surface products, the laptop kind by the way, are unlikely, The company rolled out its entire new Surface line, including theSurface Pro 9 5G,Surface Laptop 5andSurface Studio 2 Plusless than four months ago. Also unlikely is anything to do with the MicrosoftHololens, a mixed reality headset and part of the business that now appears tobe running on fumes.
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A 38-year industry veteran andaward-winning journalist, Lance has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases and “on line” meant “waiting.” He’s a former Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Chief, and, before that, Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He also wrote a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade.
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