Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 employees would be laid off. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Google this week began companywide internal testing of Bard, its AI chatbot for search. In a memo, CEO Sundar Pichai has asked all employees to spend 2-4 hours helping test the product. Google is in a race with Microsoft to lead the next era of AI-based search. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sent an internal memo to Googlers on Wednesday asking them to contribute 2-4 hours of their time to helping improve Bard , the company’s AI chatbot that it intends to integrate into search. The email, which was reviewed by Insider, signals how Google’s urgency in moving to win the next generation of AI-based search. The company has found itself on its back foot as Microsoft took the spotlight for its investment in OpenAI. OpenAI created the popular ChatGPT, a chatbot released in late 2022 which can respond to broad, open-ended questions with human-like answers. Last week, Microsoft unveiled a revamped version of its Bing search engine with ChatGPT , and CEO Satya Nadella […]
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