Weekly Content Round-Up: January 4, 2023

What I'm Reading

Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google
Microsoft could soon get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, which gives humanlike text answers to questions. Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Bing search engine that uses the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT to answer some ...

This news (if any bit true) is a huge development and puts immense pressure on Google to improve their search products/debloat the user experience. Very impressed with what Microsoft is doing here and am much more bullish on Microsoft than Google in the near-term.

What I'm playing

We got some tickets to see Big Gigantic in February - haven't listened to them in a few years and excited to see them in a month.

What I'm watching

Still waiting on access to Lens Protocol, but this is one of the more promising protocols that has potential in the months/years to come. Big focus on web2 vs. web3 dynamics here.