Microsoft is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans.
Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, and hopes to challenge Google, the news website reported
In a blog post last year, Microsoft said it planned to integrate image-generation software from OpenAI, DALL-E 2, into Bing.
OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.
Microsoft had in 2019 backed San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company OpenAI, offering US$1 billion (S$1.33 billion) in funding.
The two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.
OpenAI made its latest creation ChatGPT chatbot available for free public testing on November 30.
The chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversation based on user prompts and can respond to a large range of questions while imitating human speaking styles.
