“Our investment in digital infrastructure and skills will help Malaysian businesses, communities and developers apply the latest technology to drive inclusive economic growth and innovation across the country.” He also confirmed the investment in his keynote speech, saying he was “really pleased” to announce the expansion. “We really want to make sure that we have…
Yusup Farooq, MD, country managing director of Microsoft in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal; Arif-uz-Zaman, Technology Head, Transcom Group, Samik Roy, Executive Director, Corporate, Medium and Small Business, Microsoft India and Humayun Kabir, CEO and MD, Elevate Solutions Limited were present at the event.Collected
Thursday’s meeting will be attended by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients, national security adviser Jake Sullivan Lail, director of the National Economic Council. Brainard and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Before…
formidable competitor Alphabet is coming off a disappointing fourth quarter as advertisers cut spending. The search and advertising giant is moving quickly to keep pace with OpenAI and rivals, reportedly bringing on founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to accelerate its efforts. “People are starting to question whether Microsoft is now going to be a…
“They can help a local baker collaborate with a client on a cake design, or a toy maker dream up a new creation,” he said. “As we continue to bring generative AI technologies to our products, the only limit to discovery will be your imagination.” Generative AI is used to create human-like creations through code,…
The Chinese tech giant has diversified into artificial intelligence, cloud computing and autonomous driving technologies in recent years as advertising revenue has been sluggish in the face of tough regulatory scrutiny. Baidu is expected to integrate Ernie Bot into its main search service, allowing users to receive a conversation-style answer to their search results instead…
How Google intended to differentiate Bard from OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unclear. Pichai said that the new service is based on information from the Internet; ChatGPT’s knowledge is up to date as of 2021. “Bard wants to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our AI,” Pichai said. Behind…
Microsoft Corp on Monday announced another multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, deepening ties with the startup behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT and setting the stage for more competition with rival Alphabet Inc’s Google. Recently claiming a revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft is building on a bet it made on OpenAI nearly four years ago, when…
Shares of the Redmond, Washington-based company closed down 2 percent on Wednesday. The announcement coincides with the start of layoffs at its retail and cloud-computing rival Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O, which began notifying employees on Wednesday of job cuts of its own 18,000 people. In an internal memo seen by Reuters, Amazon said affected workers in…
Public interest in OpenAI has grown since the release in November of ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot that can compose prose, poetry or even draft computer code on command. ChatGPT is powered by generative artificial intelligence, which adds new content after training on massive amounts of data — technology that Microsoft is letting more customers apply…
OpenAI, which did not respond to inquiries from AFP, will have about 200 employees by 2021, according to a query made directly on ChatGPT. For now, despite the excitement generated by ChatGPT, the company has yet to find its path to financial freedom. Founded as a non-profit, the startup became a “capped for-profit” company in…
The private lawsuit also seeks an injunction preventing Microsoft from acquiring Activision. It was filed on behalf of 10 video game players in California, New Mexico and New Jersey. The proposed acquisition would give Microsoft “far-reaching market power in the video game industry,” the complaint alleges, “by limiting competitors, limiting production, reducing consumer choice, raising…
Microsoft India on Friday sent invites for an event scheduled on Wednesday, where it is expected to launch the first Microsoft-branded smartphone, the Lumia 535. The invite sent by the company reads, “Five days to magic of triple 5.” That, of course, is a pointer to the “5x5x5” Microsoft Lumia 535. Last week, the company…
The surprise launch pits the firm against Microsoft, which completed its takeover of Nokia’s previous mobile-devices business in April. The N1 tablet is due to go on sale in China towards the start of 2015, ahead of other countries. Nokia said it was not making the device itself, but had licensed its brand, design and…
Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant’s exam when he was just five years old. Ayan, now six, whose father is an IT consultant, has set up his own computer network at home. He told the BBC he found the exam difficult but enjoyable, and hopes to set up…