Microsoft has announced on Wednesday that the new Bing is now “in open preview” and the wait list has been removed. This means that anyone can try the new Bing and Edge simply by signing into Bing with their Microsoft account.
In a blog post announcing the new Bing access, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, said that the new AI powered Bing and Edge were created to reinvent the future of search.
To bring better search results, answers to questions, the ability to create and compose, and to do all these with a new level of ease of use by being able to chat in natural language.
He said, “Bing combines powerful large language models like Open AI’s GPT-4 with our immense search index for results that are current, cited and conversational – something you can’t get anywhere else but on Bing. This is fundamentally changing the way people find information.”
The company also announced rolling out even more new features and additions to the platform. These include;
- Integration of Bing Image Creator into the new Bing chat
This makes Bing the only search engine that has the ability to generate both written and visual contents in one place from within chat
- Expanding Image Creator to all the over 100 languages in Bing. This means that users can now create images in their native language
- Introducing richer and more visual answers.
“We’re introducing richer, more visual answers including charts and graphs and updated formatting of answers, helping you find the information you seek more easily,” the company said.
- Incorporating visual search in chat. This will help users to be able to upload images and search the Web for treated contents
- Introducing chat history so that users can now pick up from where they left off and also return to previous chats.
- Adding export and share functionalities. This helps users to je able to easily share their conversations with others on social media.
Three months ago, Microsoft unveiled the new AI powered Microsoft Bing and Edge.
In 90 days, Microsoft claims that users have engaged in over half a billion chats and created over 200 million images with Bing Image Creator. In all, Bing has grown to more than 100 million daily active users, and the number of daily installs of the Bing Mobile app have increased by ×4.