Microsoft President: Chinese counterparts will be ChatGPT's main competitors

Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a recent interview with Nikkei Asian Review in Tokyo that Chinese research institutions and companies will be ChatGPT's main competitors. Microsoft is the largest shareholder of ChatGPT developer OpenAI.

Smith said that while competition from U.S. tech giants including Amazon and Google in the field of generative artificial intelligence is intensifying, their Chinese counterparts will not be left behind in this area. He said, "We see three organizations that are at the absolute forefront, one is OpenAI and Microsoft, the second is Google, and the third is the Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of Artificial Intelligence."

He said the competition in innovation will be "very intense" and that "who is ahead and who is behind may change at different times of the year, but one thing will never change: [the order of precedence] will be measured in months, not years."