Bard, Bing and Baidu: How big tech’s AI race will transform searches

Welcome to the AI race!

Microsoft responded swiftly to Google, saying it would incorporate the ChatGPT chatbot into its search engine, Bing.

ChatGPT has already been added to Microsoft’s Teams software. You can expect it to turn up soon in Word, where it will write paragraphs for you. In Outlook it will compose entire emails, and in PowerPoint it will help you prepare slides for your next talk.

Chinese web giant Baidu has also sprung into action. It recently announced its latest chatbot would be released in March. Baidu’s chatbot is will be trained on 50 per cent more parameters than ChatGPT, and will be bilingual. Its share price jumped 15 per cent in response.