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Investing.com-- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is collaborating with Harvard to improve health content in its Copilot AI assistant, as part of a broader push to wean itself off OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
CoPilot will begin using Harvard Health Publishing information for healthcare queries with an update scheduled for later in October, the WSJ report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft will pay Harvard a licensing fee.
Microsoft AI vice president of health Dominic King told the WSJ that the company’s aim is for Copilot to serve answers that are more in line with information from a medical practitioner than anything currently on offer.
A push into healthcare is also Microsoft’s attempt to carve out its own niche in the highly competitive AI industry. Earlier this year, Microsoft AI said an AI tool it developed was able to diagnose diseases at a rate four times more accurate than a group of doctors, and at a fraction of the cost.
Microsoft is also attempting to reduce its reliance on OpenAI for AI technology. While the two reached a tentative agreement to extend their partnership earlier this year, reports showed Microsoft was working rapidly on gaining technological independence from OpenAI.
Microsoft said in August it was testing a homegrown AI model which could eventually be used in Copilot. The company also uses non-OpenAI models, such as rival Anthropic’s Claude, in some of its products.