Microsoft has scheduled a major news event for tomorrow, February 7th, which is expected to bring some major announcements to the tech industry. The event, to be held at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was first teased through mail invites last week and has now been officially confirmed.

Starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, the event will be hosted by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, who is expected to share some exciting updates about several projects that the company has been working on. The exact details of what will be announced are yet to be revealed, but it is likely that the focus will be on Microsoft’s integration of OpenAI’s technology into its services, especially its rumored integration of ChatGPT into Bing.

The event is happening just a few days after Microsoft made a $10 billion deal with OpenAI, which will make the software giant the exclusive cloud partner for OpenAI. This partnership will see Microsoft powering OpenAI’s workloads across all its products, API services, and research.

The timing of the event is also notable as it comes just moments after Google’s announcement of its own conversational AI service, Bard. Although the service is still in its testing phase and available to a limited group of users, Google promises to make it more widely available in the coming weeks.

Microsoft’s response to Google’s move will be its integration of ChatGPT into Bing, which has already created a buzz in the tech community. On Friday, some Bing users spotted a new chat section in the search engine that resembles a chatbot UI for getting answers from Microsoft’s search engine, but this has since disappeard. The company is referring to this as “the new Bing” that will provide “complete answers” to real-life questions.

In addition to Bing, Microsoft is also planning to integrate OpenAI’s models into its other products, such as Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and perhaps Windows 11. The company recently launched Microsoft Teams Premium, which features OpenAI technology.

The event is also significant as it will be held a day before Google’s own event on search and AI on February 8th. This sudden announcement of Bard by Google just a day before Microsoft’s event suggests that the search giant is feeling the heat from the recent launch of ChatGPT.

With elevated expectations, tomorrow’s event is expected to give a detailed insight into how Microsoft plans to integrate OpenAI’s technology into its products and services, especially the integration of ChatGPT into Bing.