The announcement was made as part of the Microsoft Bing blog, celebrating six months of the generative AI tool’s availability.
Microsoft on Monday announced it plans to launch Bing Chat for third-party browsers on the web and mobile “soon.” This means Safari and Chrome users will soon be able to use Bing AI Chat. In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was being tested in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari for select users.
“This next step in the journey allows Bing to showcase the incredible value of summarized answers, image creation and more, to a broader array of people,” says the Bing team in a blog post. “You’ll get most of the great benefits of Bing and we’ll continue to optimise along the way to meet your needs across different browsers,” it read.
The announcement was made as part of the Microsoft Bing blog, celebrating six months of the generative AI tool’s availability. To date, Bing Chat has facilitated over 1 billion chats and processed 750 million images via the Bing image generator, powered by DALL.E. By removing the requirement for users to install a specific browser to access these AI-services, Microsoft aims to onboard more users from both the desktop and mobile ecosystems.
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Furthermore, the new AI-powered Bing Chat has received several new features as part of its six-month anniversary. This includes an enhanced Bing Chat with support for longer conversations and chat history, available exclusively on the Edge browser. Microsoft is also introducing a dark mode for Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise on desktop and mobile to reduce power consumption and be easier on users’ eyes.
It now supports multimodal visual search in chats, allowing users to interact with the chatbot using images and prompt questions related to them. For example, users can upload a picture of the Roman Colosseum and inquire for more details about it, or they can upload a picture of a fridge and ask for breakfast suggestions.
Bing AI for enterprises has also improved. The AI engine can now provide verifiable answers, citations, and enhanced commercial data protection, which adds privacy and safeguards intellectual properties.
Microsoft positioned itself ahead in the AI race by collaborating with OpenAI and deploying artificial intelligence in various products such as the Edge web browser, Azure cloud services, and the Office suite. By extending these services to third-party web browsers, the company is aiming to further democratise AI-powered chatbots on both desktop and mobile platforms.
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First published on: 08-08-2023 at 10:01 IST
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