From Google’s Bard to Microsoft’s new Bing, here are all the major contenders in the AI chatbot space.

Meta’s big bet on the ‘next chapter of the internet’ has not paid off, while Microsoft has dismantled its Industrial Metaverse Core Team and Tencent no longer plans to make the hardware.

Costing around $1.2bn, Yammer was snapped up by the office software giant in 2012, and was integrated within the company's Microsoft Office suite as a social network companion. The successor of it will be „Viva“.

The breakout success of OpenAI has put Microsoft at the forefront of what some see as the next wave of technological innovation.
Microsoft rolls out the "new Bing", which uses a next-gen OpenAI large language model and Microsoft's new Prometheus Model, in "limited preview" at bing.com/new

The reported $10 billion investment in OpenAI will keep the hottest AI company on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Tech giant Microsoft said it is cutting 10,000 jobs, representing about 5% of its global workforce, in an effort to cut costs amid signs of an economic slowdown.

The software giant plans to incorporate artificial-intelligence tools from the startup and make them available as platforms for other businesses to build on, CEO Satya Nadella said.

Microsoft deepens partnership to add GPT to its search and Office suite. OpenAI is valued at 29 billion US-$ at the moment.

While it may sound intriguing, there are a number of “buts” around the news that Microsoft is planning to add ChatGPT to Bing.