[linooma_]

> I mean Bing had like a whole three weeks to slap this together after OpenAI first demoed it's ability to make things up.

How do you know that's when they first learned about it? Perhaps the Bing team had access to it for weeks prior to the demo.

"Microsoft provided OpenAI LP a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a second multi-year investment in January 2023, reported to be $10 billion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

[easton]

Satya said he was playing with it last summer (I think in the verge?), they’ve had some dev time. And Bing has been testing some kind of chat bot for months, presumably not ChatGPT based.

[vitorgrs]

Yes, since 2021 there was another Bing chatbot (the original Sydney)