Microsoft And AI

Microsoft is already offering artificial intelligence, AI services via its cloud offering Azure.

Cloud computing, arguably after AI is the most important technology of our time and is made possible via artificial intelligence, AI algorithms like tree, random forest, back-propagation, k-means clustering, logistic regression, linear regression, etc

Microsoft did not have a popular artificial intelligence, AI chat bot before. Now, Microsoft with its OpenAI's share of 49 % has the leading artificial intelligence, AI chat bot technology on the market with ChatGPT, which uses large language models, essentially linear regressions with more than 2 billion parameters or unknowns or mini mathematical models or 2 billion + mini algorithms, integrated into a large artificial intelligence, AI algorithm.

OpenAI went through great deal of turbulence lately with the one week ouster than shock return of its CEO Sam Altman. That damaged the Open AI's ChatGPT brand a lot. ChatGPT lost some of its users momentum. But the underlying technology is still there, so OpenAI's ChatGPT should regain its momentum. Also provided it keeps key personnel like Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's CTO until three weeks ago, before the returning Sam Altman ousted Ilya Sutskever from his position in OpenAI. Ilya Sutskever is still associated with OpenAI, though. Ilya Sutskever was a key hire from OpenAI ChatGPT's main competitor, Alphabet, Google owner and producer of the Bard artificial intelligence, AI chat bot.

Microsoft, actually via Azure and more importantly via the cloud version of Microsoft Office has gathered huge terabytes of information on its more than 1 billion users in the case of Microsoft Office. Actually, it is not known to what extent Microsoft is allowed to use this data on its users. Actually, despite the fact that Microsoft owns 49 % of OpenAI it is not known to what extent OpenAI can tap Microsoft's huge treasure trove of user data in developing ChatGPT's version. Microsoft gathers also huge amounts of data via its search engine Bing, which is now more than a 10 billion USD in yearly revenue business.

If OpenAI is allowed to tap into all of Microsoft's Azure, Microsoft Office and Bing data, that would make OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence, AI chat bot a viable to an extent competitor to Alphabet's Google search engine. To an extent, because OpenAI's ChatGPT interface, although containing useful, large amounts of tailored information is still clunky compared with Google's clean interface in Wolfteam Ltd.'s view.

In short, Microsoft has a lot of catching up to Alphabet's Google to do in artificial intelligence, AI. Alphabet's Google search engine also uses a neural network, which is supported by a linear regression with hundreds of millions of parameters to produce search results supported by links. Alphabet has announced that since 2012 it uses a neural network to rank Google search results.

If Microsoft allows its de facto subsidiary OpenAI to use Microsoft's Azure, Microsoft Office and Bing data and the information and produced results flow back to Microsoft, Microsoft could close to some extent the artificial intelligence, AI gap with Alphabet, owner of the Google search engine, according to Wolfteam Ltd.