** Shares of artificial intelligence(AI) firms climb
premarket after megacap tech firms Microsoft Corp MSFT.O and
Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O report upbeat results
** The two tech firms are in a race to include AI features
in their products - MSFT with its partnership with ChatGPT and
GOOGL with its release of the Bard chatbot
** C3.ai Inc AI.N up 3%; SoundHound AI Inc SOUN.O and
BigBear.ai Holdings Inc BBAI.N up 3% and 5%, respectively
** AI-focused biotech firm Bullfrog AI Holdings Inc BFRG.O
up 11%
(Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru)
((johann.mcherian@thomsonreuters.com;))