ChatGPT puts Google in jeopardy: integrated into the product by a series of competitors, an ancient browser also leverages ChatGPT to take on Chrome

Not only breaking the monopoly in Google’s search business for many years, ChatGPT is also threatening many other Google businesses when integrated into competitors’ products.

According to a report from The Verge, software giant Microsoft is planning to upgrade its Office applications with AI features in the near future. Expectedly in March, Microsoft will show users what Microsoft’s AI Prometheus technology and OpenAI’s AI language model will bring to the company’s office suite, including Word. , PowerPoint, Outlook and other programs.

This is seen as a direct blow from Microsoft to Google’s web-based work applications. Earlier, with help from OpenAI, Microsoft launched a new version of Bing search engine that integrates the Prometheus language model – a language model that is claimed to be more powerful than ChatGPT.

Even The Verge reports that Microsoft wants its AI technology to be able to generate diagrams and graphics using PowerPoint and Excel. Another report by The Information also said that Microsoft wants its AI model to be able to generate text with just a few simple prompts in its Office applications.

Although Google’s web-based office applications are still not comparable to Microsoft in terms of features and market share, the company is still gradually improving and upgrading their features. Besides, this is also an indispensable part of the cloud application package that Google brings to customers. Being further behind by Microsoft in these software will likely have a significant impact on Google’s cloud services.

However, most ominous is the recent move of Opera – a browser that was once famous but has long been disgraced by users – also announced the integration of ChatGPT into its product. What started out was a feature called Shorten, intended to use ChatGPT to summarize articles and web pages.

If it turns out to be true, Opera will be the second browser to announce AI chatbot integration, followed by Microsoft’s Edge browser with AI features running on the company’s Prometheus model. The new Edge browser brings users a lot of cool AI features, including a button to access Bing’s new chat feature – allowing users to chat with an even more powerful chatbot than ChatGPT in the toolbar.

With the current market share, both Opera and Microsoft Edge browsers may not immediately threaten the position of Google Chrome, but this move could completely improve the market share of these browsers and eat into Google’s market share. Chrome.

The Chrome browser can be considered the second most important product in the Google ecosystem – after the Android operating system – in collecting user data and targeting ads more accurately. Although both Opera and Microsoft Edge are using the Chromium kernel developed by Google, the rise of these browsers to eat Chrome’s market share also poses a significant threat to this giant’s business.

What is even more worrisome is that if this becomes a popular trend, as a series of smaller competitors arise to compete with Google simply by integrating ChatGPT into their products, Google will eventually become the leader. be left behind if you can’t give a worthy answer to this chatbot.

Meanwhile, Google’s response to ChatGPT is the Bard chatbot that has not yet officially reached users. What’s more, this chatbot had a terrible debut after giving a basic wrong answer in the intro video without anyone knowing. Not long after that, shares of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had lost nearly 8% of its market capitalization.

See The Verge, Engadget