Microsoft Set to Roll Out AI-Powered Docs, PowerPoint, Outlook Apps
Microsoft is reportedly set to roll out its new AI tech, similar to ChatGPT, across Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook in March.
According to The Verge’s Tom Warren(Opens in a new window), the company is “tentatively” gearing up to show how its integration of OpenAI’s language AI technology into its Prometheus Model works in those core Microsoft 365 apps at an announcement next month.
The news comes after Microsoft released its new ChatGPT powered Bing search engine this week, just after Google revealed Bard, its answer to the phenomenally popular ChatGPT AI chatbot. That new AI-infused Bing search is capable of coming up with conversational responses to search queries, thanks to its Prometheus model.
Microsoft Office users can already get a preview of the Prometheus Model if they use the Bing sidebar in Microsoft’s Edge browser. By rolling out the Prometheus Model across Office apps, Microsoft is hoping to generate graphs and visual graphics from basic data for PowerPoint and even Excel, The Verge reports. The tech giant is also reportedly(Opens in a new window) planning for its AI model to generate text from short and simple prompts within Office 365 apps.
Microsoft has been heavily investing in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT; in January the tech giant said it was making a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment” in the AI company that reportedly amounted to as much as $10 billion.
The outsize popularity of Open AI’s ChatGPT has led to an AI chatbot race in Silicon Valley. Microsoft is reported to have pushed forward with its AI plans in order to drown out Google’s attempts at conquering the market. As Engadget notes(Opens in a new window), Microsoft was due to launch its new AI-infused Bing at the end of this month but
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