In an interview earlier this week, Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Sundar Pichai responded to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella‘s comments about making Google “dance” after the introduction of new Bing.
What Happened: On Wednesday, in an interview with Bloomberg, Pichai dismissed Nadella’s remarks about the “new Bing” and the need for Google to “dance” to its tune. “One of the ways you can do the wrong thing is by listening to noise out there and playing to someone else’s dance music,” he said.
Microsoft announced its “New Bing,” powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, in February 2023. That same month, Nadella said, “I want people to know that we made them dance.”
Nadella also stated that he had been waiting for 20 years to compete with Google and that it “should have been the default winner” of the ...