Aptos (APT), the native token of the layer-1 Aptos blockchain, surged on Wednesday on the news that Aptos has partnered with Microsoft to work on new artificial intelligence (AI) blockchain products. Aptos unveiled that is will be utilizing Microsoft’s Azure Open AI Service to create a new AI-powered chatbot called Aptos Assistant. The chatbot will answer questions about Aptos and will help developers build smart contracts and decentralized applications. Aptos and Microsoft have also agreed to explore the creation of blockchain-based financial products. Aptos is set to integrate its native programming language Move into GitHub’s AI programming tool called Copilot. AI has been a hot topic in crypto since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI late last year, and many crypto investors might start piling into Aptos now in light of the crypto becoming an “AI coin”.