Microsoft is holding a surprise event and it might be about Bing and ChatGPT

Microsoft is holding a surprise, and secretive, launch event at its Redmond headquarters on Tuesday, Feb 7. It might be Bing ChatGPT integration’s popping out to celebration or one thing else altogether, we simply do not know but.

The Windows 11 dad or mum firm despatched out invitations to a choose group of tech media and analysts final week, however is solely permitting everybody to speak about it – after some attainable leaks – right now.

In the invite the corporate says it’s “sharing progress on a few exciting projects” and that CEO Satya Nadella will lead the dialogue. What’s lacking right here is, properly, a variety of issues. The firm has no plans to dwell stream the event; it’s additionally provided zero data about the sorts of merchandise, initiatives, and even product classes that can be mentioned.

What we do and do not know

What we do know is that there’ll be hands-on demos. That may be {hardware} like a Microsoft Surface Duo 3 smartphone. But with the latest obvious Bing ChatGPT leaks, many individuals are betting we’ll see an artificially intelligence-inseminated search engine as an alternative.

As described by Owen Yin (opens in new tab) (by way of The Verge (opens in new tab)), who bought temporary entry to what might be the subsequent technology of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing would combine a very ChatGPT-like interface that might settle for natural-language queries and return some very sensible outcomes. The customary Bing search engine would, primarily based on this attainable leak, dwell on beside the AI integration.

Microsoft’s information comes simply as Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival, Bard AI, in a very restricted launch however with a promise of it coming to Google Search quickly.

Surface merchandise, the laptop computer form by the way in which, are unlikely, The firm rolled out its total new Surface line, together with the Surface Pro 9 5G, Surface Laptop 5 and Surface Studio 2 Plus lower than 4 months in the past. Also unlikely is something to do with the Microsoft Hololens, a blended actuality headset and a part of the enterprise that now seems to be operating on fumes.

We have excellent news, although. Whatever Microsoft and Nadella are planning tomorrow, TechRadar will be there, on the bottom. Your intrepid reporter has an invitation and is on his means there proper now. We’ll share extra particulars as we get them. Be certain to lock into TechRadar and this reporter’s Twitter feed (opens in new tab) for dwell particulars.