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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Google poised to release chatbot technology after ChatGPT success

An illustration of a ChatGPT conversation
An illustration of a ChatGPT conversation. ChatGPT is believed to have reached 100m users. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Rex/Shutterstock

Google is to make its chatbot technology available to the public in “the coming weeks and months” as it responds to the success of ChatGPT, a Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence chatbot that has become a global phenomenon after it was made available free of charge.

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google’s owner, Alphabet, said the use of AI had reached an “inflection point” and the company was “extremely well positioned” in the field.

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