Microsoft Is Planning A Surprise Event, Which Could Involve Bing And ChatGPT

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Microsoft is holding a surprise and secretive launch event at its Redmond headquarters on Tuesday, February 7. It might be Bing ChatGPT integration coming out to play or something else altogether; we just don’t know yet.

The Windows 11 parent company sent out invites to a select group of tech media and analysts last week but is only allowing everyone to talk about it today, after some possible leaks.

In the invitation, the company says it’s “sharing progress on a few exciting projects” and that CEO Satya Nadella will lead the discussion. What’s missing here is, well, several things. The company has no plans to live stream the event; it’s also offered zero information about the kinds of products, projects, or even product categories that will be discussed.

What we do and don’t know

What we do know is that there will be hands-on demos. That could be hardware like a Microsoft Surface Duo 3 smartphone. But with the recent apparent Bing ChatGPT leaks, many people are betting we’ll see an artificially intelligent search engine instead.

As described by Owen Yin (via The Verge), who got brief access to what might be the next generation of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing would integrate a very ChatGPT-like interface that could accept natural-language queries and return some very smart results. According to this possible leak, the standard Bing search engine will continue to exist alongside AI integration.

Microsoft’s news comes just as Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival, Bard AI, in a very limited release but with a promise that it would come to Google Search soon.

Surface laptops are unlikely, as the company only recently launched its entire new Surface line, which includes the Surface Pro 9 5G, Surface Laptop 5, and Surface Studio 2 Plus. Also unlikely is anything to do with the Microsoft Hololens, a mixed reality headset and part of the business that now appears to be running on fumes.