This is interesting, but I suspect the real story is that Bing Chat is lower priority than OpenAI. And it should be! If Bing Chat is based on GPT-N, training GP

This is interesting, but I suspect the real story is that Bing Chat is lower priority than OpenAI. And it should be! If Bing Chat is based on GPT-N, training GPT-N+1 and building the network effects of selling that technology absolutely should be the first priority. If Bing Chat goes down, someone surely gets paged but nobody is going to be ruined. And frankly, most consumers probably won't notice. At the same time, it's Microsoft's flag that they've planted in search. How much is that worth? Apparently (at least) the cost of GPU-hours from Oracle but less than the cost of holding back those GPUs from OpenAI.