Microsoft Is Reportedly Building an AI Language Model to Rival Google and OpenAI

Last week, internal emails sent in 2019 between Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella and Bill Gates resurfaced as part of the Department of Justice's antitrust probe into Google. In the emails, Scott writes that he's "very worried" about the company's lack of progress in the AI space compared to OpenAI and Google.That same year, Microsoft invested $1 billion USD to form a partnership with OpenAI, seemingly as a way to remedy its own lack of an AI chatbot. That part...