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Big Tech’s battle for AI supremacy

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The Economist

The AI “frenzy” is in “full swing”, says The Economist. Microsoft has implanted AI into almost all its productivity software, including Word and Excel. Google has done likewise with Gmail and Sheets. OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has launched a new version of its powerful chatbot. Apple, Amazon and Meta are all busy with new products, too. Big Tech, worried about becoming the next Kodak, is rising to the challenge of this “platform shift” with a “deluge of investments”.

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