TECHNOLOGY

Will Microsoft’s ChatGPT spell the end of Google?

After struggling to make its mark on the world wide web, Bill Gates’s old company finally has the tools to take on its biggest rival

Satya Nadella, chief of executive of Microsoft, has been in an upbeat mood this week
Satya Nadella, chief of executive of Microsoft, has been in an upbeat mood this week
Mark Sellman
The Times

A viral video clip of Microsoft’s chief executive being interviewed this week shows how much Satya Nadella has been enjoying himself.

Capped with a cheeky smile, he describes the gauntlet his company threw down to Google on Tuesday: “With our innovation they will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance; and I want people to know that we made them dance.”

Nadella is referring to the announcement that Microsoft will be incorporating a new version of the AI chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine, Bing, and its browser, Edge.

ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm over the past few months. Tens of millions of people are using it to write essays, stories, presentations, poems and