Satya Nadella said AI-powered search is the biggest thing to happen to the company in the nine years he’s been CEO
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday that search powered by artificial intelligence is the biggest thing to happen to his company in the nine years he’s been at the helm.
“I have not seen something like this since I would say 2007-2008, when the cloud was just first coming out,” Nadella told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in an interview.
Microsoft invited reporters to its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, for an event that centered around new AI-powered updates to the company’s Bing search engine and Edge browser. Bing, which is a distant second to Google in search, will now allow users to chat in a way that provides more detailed answers to queries.
The updates to Bing and Edge will launch on Tuesday on desktop in a limited preview, meaning users will get a finite number of queries to search during the initial period.
Nadella said search is a very profitable business, so these developments reflect a big opportunity for Microsoft.
