In einer Zeugenaussage im gegenwärtig in Washington D.C. laufenden Kartellverfahren gegen Google beantwortet der Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella die Frage, ob Google die Herausforderung durch ChatGPT gestemmt und am Markt der Suchmaschinen gegen ein mit Künstlicher Intelligenz von OpenAI hochgefüttertes Bing die Kurve kratzen konnte.
“You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, and you search on Google,” Nadella, the boss of $2.4 trillion Microsoft, testified in the antitrust trial about Google’s search monopoly. […] The most notable takeaway of the testimony however is that the AI secret weapon that Microsoft has paid so dearly for, shelling out $13 billion to partner with OpenAI, has produced so few gains in market share. AI was supposed to be a game changer for internet search. And yet Microsoft’s Bing search engine, even with its ChatGPT superpowers, is still a bit player. Google remains the 800-pound gorilla that refuses to dance for anyone but its keepers.
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Es bleibt spannend.
Aktualisierung am 19. Januar 2024
Der Plan ist nicht aufgegangen. Gar nicht, nämlich. Ars Technica:
A year later, it looks like Microsoft’s AI efforts may have helped Bing on the margins, but they haven’t meaningfully eroded Google’s search market share […] Bing usage had been down around 33 percent year over year just before the AI-powered features were added, but those numbers had rebounded by the middle of 2023. […] It even seems like Microsoft is making moves to distance its AI efforts from Bing a bit. What began as „Bing Chat“ or „the new Bing“ is now known as Windows Copilot—both inside Windows 11 and elsewhere. […] the Copilot screen in Windows 11 still says „with Bing“ at the top of it […] but if these new AI features aren’t driving Bing’s market share up, then it makes sense for Microsoft to create room for them to stand on their own.
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Eigentlich ist die Sache bitter, denn wann, wenn nicht jetzt, wo allen klar ist, dass Google miese Suchergebnisse liefert, wäre die Möglichkeit, einen Angriff auf den Weltmarktführer zu starten, und wer, wenn nicht Microsoft, hätte die Mittel, soetwas zu tun?