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MICROSOFT, one of the leaders in the ongoing AI race, is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence chipset called Athena that will back AI chatbot technologies like ChatGPT. The company, which was an early investor in OpenAI, has reportedly been working on the chipset for the past four years and is already being tested by a small group of Microsoft employees, according to the report.

Further, the report by The Information also mentions that the chipset would be used for the training purpose for the large-language models and inference which both are needed by generative AI tools like ChatGPT in order to process the data, recognise patterns and create human-like responses and conversations.

The company is working on a new chipset with the aim that it would be better than any other chipset present in the market. By doing this the company plans to save money and time on the costly operations of developing AI.

Meanwhile, the current market is dominated by the chipset maker NVIDIA. Additionally Google, last year has also announced that it had developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), an AI chip that is designed for machine learning tasks. Google also claims that it could handle massive amounts of operations and be efficient at the same time.

In the meantime, Microsoft is already leading the ongoing AI race all over the globe after announcing the AI-powered Bing search. The report also suggests that Microsoft would soon introduce AI-powered tools to its services like Outlook, Doc, and other platforms. With this, the users would be able to do their day-to-day tasks quite easily and with no extra effort.

On the other hand, Google is still lagging behind in the race as the company has only announced the integration of AI services to its Gmail and Google Doc but has not revealed the exact timeline for the same.