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Microsoft may incorporate OpenAI writing technology into Word, Excel, and other applications.

Microsoft will reportedly integrate OpenAI writing technology into Office, allowing users to compose text for projects by incorporating AI technology into its apps. According to The Information, which cites sources, the company wants to incorporate OpenAI artificial intelligence into Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, and other apps.

This will allow users to flesh out a document with stretches of automatically-generated text based on a prompt. Furthermore, an AI-generated email could be created for the user based on what they want to communicate to the recipient. Microsoft engineers and researchers have been using OpenAI machine-learning models for more than a year to create personalized AI tools for composing emails and documents. Meanwhile, Microsoft has begun testing a new feature called Teams chat, which it plans to integrate into Outlook shortly. According to the software giant, the feature will be available to all users in March 2023.

This feature will allow participants to send a quick message or review the chat while in the context of a meeting by providing an easy Teams chat experience from Outlook. Participants and organizers will be able to use the chat integration to discuss a meeting in real time rather than sending emails back and forth with this feature. According to Semafor, who cited people familiar with the matter, Microsoft Corp is in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT. The funding from other venture firms will value San Francisco-based OpenAI at $29 billion. On November 30, OpenAI made the ChatGPT chatbot available for free public testing. A chatbot is a software application that uses user input to simulate human-like conversation.

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella visited India for four days. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., was in the country just before him. The CEOs of two tech behemoths praised India and its digital push. However, their visit coincides with India tightening its regulatory grip on tech behemoths. Another significant development occurred last week when the BCCI invited bids for the ownership of five women's IPL teams. It is set to begin in the first week of March 2023. So, in the second and final installment of our IPL series, we ask today whether the women's IPL matches the popularity and success of the men's IPL.