The technology giant Microsoft begins the new year demonstrating its great investment power and seeking to improve the services provided by both its email tool and some of the Office Package programs. To this end, it has entered into negotiations with Open AI for the incorporation of the software ChatGPT in their structures.
Since ever Microsoft has been a supporter of incorporating language AI technology into its applications, having previously introduced a version of OpenAI’s GPT text generation model in word in its autocomplete function or to perform spelling and grammar checks. In power point we have also seen the presence of AI algorithms in automatically suggesting subtitles for slides and images.
They have already implemented the OpenAI GPT technology to improve Outlook search results and even to suggest emails and compose them from simple queries. It is also hoped that ChatGPT can help recommend changes to documents that improve the writing of Word users, and even appear in the new version of Bing and allow answering search queries. If this last function were to arrive in March, as expected, it would make Microsoft’s search engine a more competitive tool compared to Google.
The microsoft surface team is willing to build new AI-based hardware, including the new surface smart camera.
The problems that Microsoft finds
The precision This is the biggest handicap Microsoft faces when incorporating GPT Chat technology into Office, since it still generates incorrect information.
Another big problem would be user privacy, in such a way that your data and reports were not compromised. For this reason, it is rigorously analyzing GPT-3 and GPT-4and everything indicates that the investigations are on the right track.
It is also necessary to highlight the lack of claritylinked this aspect to the incorporation of images created with the model Dall-E 2 from OpenAI to PowerPoint. It would be necessary to see if, in the same way, the information collected from the transcripts of Team Meetings can be applied to Office.
With this capital injection, the value of OpenAI would rise to 29,000 million dollars. for his partMicrosoft would get 75% of the profits of the company until he recovered his investment. Subsequently, Microsoft would reach a 49% share in the company (same figure as other investors), leaving OpenAI with 2%. In turn, investors expect 20-30 times their money back, so the amount of the investment could vary.
Microsoft already bought a license for GPT-3 technology in 2020 after investing billion dollars and cloud credits in OpenAI in 2019.
ChatGPT is a real headache for OpenAI, since every time someone interacts with it, it means an investment in computing power. So now you must work to achieve profitability for the benefit of Microsoft. In addition, together they will promote technology in Microsoft Cloudthe most important consumer technology for the next decade.
If Microsoft bets on the versions of Word, Outlook and Power Point with GPT, and even on the merger of Bing to PowerAppsmight represent real pressure on Googlewhich has recently improved its Workspace offerings to its clients, but also to other companies such as Stability AI. The merger of Microsoft and OpenAI will considerably improve the positioning of both companies.
