Microsoft threatens to cut-off rival AI chatbots from Bing data

The AI ​​chatbot wars seem to be heating up. Microsoft is reportedly considering banning other companies from using data from its search engine Bing.

bloomberg report(opens in new tab) Microsoft has threatened to shut down two separate Bing-powered search engines if the companies don’t stop using the data in their chatbots.of bloomberg The report does not specify which companies were involved in the dispute.Several search engines rely on Bing, including DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and You.com.

Sites like DuckDuckGo and You.com license Bing search data from Microsoft and use it in a myriad of ways to power their own search engine capabilities. but, bloomberg Microsoft reports that while it is happy with how Bing is being used today, it is not “using Bing’s search index as fodder for AI chatbots.” ing.

These days, everyone seems to have an AI chatbot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing Chat. We don’t know which companies were warned by Microsoft, but The Verge said:(opens in new tab) DuckDuckGo, You.com, and Neeva have both launched their own AI products.

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Generative AI and AI chatbots are definitely of And it seems that new features and versions of AI bots are released daily. For example, Bing recently launched the ability to generate images via AI. With a myriad of tech giants vying for supremacy in emerging fields, it makes sense that Microsoft would try to limit access to other companies’ data when it comes to his AI field.