Microsoft is hosting a surprise and mysterious launch event at its Redmond headquarters on Tuesday, February 7th. It could be Bing ChatGPT integrationPartying or something completely different, we just don’t know yet.
The Windows11 The parent company sent out invites to a select group of tech media and analysts last week, but only today is allowing everyone to talk about it — following a few possible leaks.
In the invitation, the company says it is “sharing the progress of some exciting projects” and that CEO Satya Nadella will lead the discussion. What’s missing here is, well, a number of things. The company has no plans to live stream the event; Nor is any information offered about the nature of the products, projects, or even product categories being discussed.
What we do and what we don’t
What we do know is that there will be hands-on demos. This could be hardware like a Microsoft Surface Duo 3 smartphone. But with the recent ones obviously Bing ChatGPT Leaks, many people are betting that we will see a search engine fertilized by artificial intelligence instead.
As described by Owen Yin (opens in new tab) (above The edge (opens in new tab)) that got a brief glimpse of what might be the next generation of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing would integrate a very ChatGPT-like interface that could accept natural language queries and return some very intelligent results. The standard search engine Bing would live on alongside the AI integration due to this possible leak.
Microsoft’s news comes just as Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival, Bard AIin a very limited version, but with a promise that it will be in Google Search soon.
Surface products, the kind of laptops by the way, are unlikely. The company has rolled out its entire new Surface line, including the Surface Pro 9 5G, Surface Laptop 5 And Surface Studio 2 Plus less than four months ago. It’s also unlikely to have anything to do with Microsoft hololensa mixed reality headset and part of the deal it seems now walk on fumes.
However, we have good news. Whatever Microsoft and Nadella are planning tomorrow, TechRadar will be there. Your intrepid reporter has an invitation and is on his way there. We will share more details as soon as we receive them. Make sure you log in to TechRadar and This reporter’s Twitter feed (opens in new tab) for live details.
