It’s shocking, given that Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI. With its early Bing Chat launch, Microsoft pulled ahead of both OpenAI and Google, offering the first chatbot that could search the web. Microsoft even had early access to a more advanced GPT model than the one you could use in ChatGPT at the time. Then everything changed.

Conclusion: ChatGPT Beats Copilot By A Hair, But Neither AI Is Great If you absolutely had to choose either Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, the latter remains the better option for most people.

Microsoft is set to report Q4 FY25 earnings, with Wall Street expecting strong results driven by AI demand and cloud growth — amid rising capital costs and layoffs tied to its rapid AI transformation.

For the quarter, Wall Street is anticipating Microsoft to report adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $3.37 on revenue of $73.89 billion, according to Bloomberg analyst consensus estimates. The company saw adj. EPS of $2.95 and revenue of $64.72 billion in the same period last year.

Now, Microsoft is testing another virtual assistant. While it's not quite Clippy 2.0, the new Copilot Appearance experiment from Copilot Labs is definitely giving major Clippy vibes.

OpenAI is one of the world's leading AI research labs. Founded in 2015, it's behind some of today's most talked-about tools, including GPT, DALL·E, and ChatGPT.

The servers of Open AI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot require consume enormous energy and water for cooling.