Perplexity AI Raises $74M To Take Valuation to $520M

Google and a few others have been dominant in the search engine space for years, but with the recent advancement of GenAI technology, the competitive landscape is set to be disrupted. Perplexity AI, a search engine Read more…

Companions, Not Replacements: Chatbots Will Not Succeed Search Engines Just Yet

The internet has been abuzz with news about the AI-powered search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has been collaborating with OpenAI to integrate an upgraded version of ChatGPT within its Bing search Read more…

Microsoft Solidifies Multi-year, Multi-billion Investment in OpenAI

Microsoft announced it has entered a third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI, creators of the famed DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT generative AI technologies. The company first partnered with OpenAI in 2019 and aga Read more…

Microsoft Debuts AI-Based Semantic Search on Azure

Microsoft has been steadily upgrading its enterprise search capabilities, recently targeting previously “unsearchable” unstructured data in the form of PDFs, Word documents, text files and JPEGs. The result was Azure Read more…

Microsoft Transfers U.S. Map Data to GitHub

Microsoft, which reaffirmed its commitment to open source software development with its blockbuster acquisition of the GitHub project collaboration platform earlier this month, is releasing a huge trove of street mapping Read more…

Microsoft Beefs Up Bing With Intel FPGAs

Long-time technology partners Intel Corp. and Microsoft are again collaborating on an effort to advance deep learning capabilities in Microsoft’s search engine using the chip maker’s FPGAs. The partners said this Read more…