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With the popularity of ChatGPT, a chat robot owned by OpenAI, a US artificial intelligence research company, interest in ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) has soared, prompting tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to rethink and rewrite their product plans to take advantage of the trend.

ChatGPT and the developer behind it, OpenAIChatGPT, is a new AI chat robot tool launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. It can quickly generate articles, stories, lyrics, essays, jokes, and even code according to users' requirements, and answer all kinds of questions, which can be short words or long speeches.

ChatGPT set off a storm on the Internet as soon as it was released, and was praised and welcomed by users, including writers, programmers and marketers.

Less than a week after its launch, ChatGPT gathered more than 1 million users. Two months after its launch, the figure has exceeded 100 million, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

By contrast, it took nine months for TikTok, 30 months for Instagram, 42 months for WhatsApp, 54 months for Meta, and 60 months for Twitter to break the 100 million user threshold.

OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, is also well known. It was co-founded in 2015 by Silicon Valley technology tycoons such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk), president of Y Combinator, the US startup incubator, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of global online payment platform PayPal. It is famous for artificial intelligence programs such as AI chat robot ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E 2.

Despite the ChatGPT fire, OpenAI did not stop moving forward, and the company quickly laid out its commercialization route. Last Wednesday, the company announced that it would launch a paid subscription service for ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 a month.

By subscribing to the service, subscribers can use ChatGPT even during peak hours with faster response times. In addition, subscribers have the privilege of giving priority to new features and performance improvements.

Tech giants have increased artificial intelligence for years, every major technology company has been investing in AI, but the ChatGPT boom that began at the end of 2022 put pressure on tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to increase their investment in AI, leading to increased competition in the field.

It is reported that Microsoft has been accelerating its investment in AI, and the popular ChatGPT is a chat robot tool launched by Microsoft-funded OpenAI.

It is reported that Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019. On January 23, 2023, Microsoft announced an expanded partnership with OpenAI, which will invest billions of dollars in OpenAI for many years to accelerate its technological breakthrough in AI.

Microsoft's close relationship and long-term investment with OpenAI ensure that the company will take the lead in deploying generative artificial intelligence services.

In addition to investing in AI, the company will also integrate AI tools in its own products. Earlier, the company's CEO Nadella had revealed plans to integrate AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E into its products.

Earlier this month, foreign media reported that Microsoft would integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine in the coming weeks, a move that would make Bing more competitive with Google.

Last week, Microsoft launched a premium version of Teams, supported by ChatGPT, to give users a smarter, personalized and private meeting experience.

On Monday, the company announced that it would hold an event at its headquarters in Redmond on Tuesday afternoon et, which is expected to focus on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI and the integration of ChatGPT with Microsoft's search engine Bing.

The popularity of ChatGPT has alarmed Google. Earlier, Google CEO Sandal Pichai (Sundar Pichai) issued a "red alert" (Code Red) within the company and said he would overhaul Google's work in AI in 2023 around ChatGPT.

When announcing the largest layoffs in Google's history in January, Pichai said the move was to refocus the company on AI.

Now, under pressure from Microsoft to work with OpenAI, Google is stepping up its efforts to provide consumers with more of these AI tools.

At the end of January this year, Google showed a demonstration of a new generative AI project that generates all kinds of music based on users' text prompts.

On Friday, Google just announced a $300 million investment in Anthropic, which developed ChatGPT's rival Claude and is stepping up testing.

Interestingly, Anthropic is the same company as OpenAI. The former is a company founded by Dario Amodei, a former OpenAI executive, after leaving. It now has about 40 employees, most of whom have been involved in the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3 models.

In order to compete with ChatGPT, Google announced on Monday that it would launch a chat robot called Bard. It's not clear what features Bard will have, but it looks like the chat robot will be as free to use as ChatGPT.

Currently, the software is only available to trusted testers. But Google has promised to open it more widely to the public in the coming weeks.

In addition to Google, Apple seems to be feeling the pressure. A senior journalist who has been following Apple for a long time said that Apple will hold an internal AI summit next week.

Similarly, Amazon has noticed the recent fire in ChatGPT. The company has announced the availability of ChatGPT in a number of job functions, including answering interview questions, writing software code, and creating training documents.

But there are also sources that the company requires employees to use ChatGPT carefully and be on guard against leaking company secrets, including code being written, to the software. In addition, Amazon is also investing more in AI and automation.

Amazon uses AI for Alexa speech recognition, optimizing its warehouse operations, and other purposes, but it hasn't caught up with the trend of generative AI.

As for Meta, it has invested heavily in the field of AI, using AI to rank dynamic news items, adjust content, translate texts, and perform many other tasks. The company plans to spend an additional $4 billion to $5 billion on data centers in 2023, all of which is expected to be spent on AI.

On January 26 this year, foreign media reported that Meta would pay OpenAI millions of dollars to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram.

In addition, at the earnings conference held on February 1 this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the most frequently used key word is AI, and he made generative AI one of the company's top topics this year.

As a domestic AI company, Baidu has been deeply cultivated in the field of AI for decades, with industrial-level knowledge to enhance the literary heart model ERNIE, cross-modal, cross-language in-depth semantic understanding and generation.

The company plans to launch an artificial intelligence chat robot service similar to ChatGPT in March, which will allow users to get conversational search results, and the initial version will be embedded in its search service.

Baidu confirmed that the project, named Wen Xin Yiyan and English name ERNIE Bot, will complete internal testing in March this year and will be open to the public.

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