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Beijing, March 17 (Xinhua)-- Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will enhance its Office office suite through generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In the process of commercializing AI technology, technology giants are engaged in fierce competition.

Microsoft demonstrated the AI tool Copilot, which can be used in software such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the Office suite. Microsoft says the new tool will help business customers write documents faster, generate art paintings and create charts, saving millions of employees a lot of time.

"the next generation of AI technology will open a new wave of productivity gains, and a strong Copilot will eliminate the drudgery of our daily tasks and work," said Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive.

This week, Microsoft-backed OpenAI released a new generation of AI model GPT-4. Microsoft has integrated this new model into Bing's search engine.

Microsoft has been working with OpenAI for three years. OpenAI developed the generative AI tool ChatGPT, which is based on the large language model and responds to users in a way that mimics human language. Since its launch in November last year, ChatGPT has attracted 100 million users in three months.

Microsoft said the new features of Office will be launched "in the coming months" and is currently being tested with some companies, but did not give further details.

This week, Google also announced enhancements to its Google Workplace office suite with AI technology. Google shows how the new tool can compose emails based on small amounts of input and adopt gloomy or whimsical tones according to the needs of users.

Microsoft has already launched an enhanced version of Bing search engine based on OpenAI's GPT technology, which is currently being tested by a small number of users.

Jared Spataro, head of marketing at Microsoft 365, admits that Copilot tools can go wrong, but stresses that AI tools are designed to help users, not to replace them.

"sometimes Copilot is right, but at other times there are useful mistakes: give you an imperfect idea so you can start on that basis," he says.

Credit Suisse estimates that if 10 per cent of Microsoft's 370 million commercial Office 365users were upgraded to an enhanced AI version, it would generate $14.9 billion (CTOnews.com Note: about RMB 102.81 billion currently) over the next five years. Credit Suisse said that assuming Microsoft also charged higher fees for simplified versions of the new features, it could generate an additional $18.7 billion (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 129.03 billion yuan).

Microsoft said the pricing of the Copilot suite would be "at a premium", but the half-hour presentation did not discuss details and focused on the daily use cases of companies and users.

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