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Microsoft Joins the Crowd Trailing OpenAI in the Chatbot Competition

Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft’s consumer AI effort, speaks in April during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Matt Day reports on the challenges facing Microsoft as it tries to make headway in the market for consumer artificial intelligence tools.

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