

But as alluded to earlier, Bing Chat will soon respond with images - at least where it makes sense. It’s more or less the experience that launched several months ago. Anyone can try it out by signing in with a Microsoft Account. “In our minds, we think that today will be the start of the next generation of this ‘search mission.'” Open, and visualĪs of today, the new Bing - the one with Bing Chat - is now available waitlist-free.

“I think it’s safe to say that we’re underway with the transformation of search,” Mehdi said in prepared remarks.

And it’ll embrace multimodality, at least in the sense that Bing Chat will be able to answer questions within the context of images. It’ll also become more personalized, with capabilities that’ll allow users to export their Bing Chat histories and draw in content from third-party plugins (more on those later).

Looking ahead, Bing will become more visual, thanks to more image- and graphic-centric answers in Bing Chat. Since launching Bing Chat, its AI-powered chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL-E 2 models, Microsoft says that visitors to Bing - which has grown to exceed 100 million daily active users - have engaged in over half a billion chats and created more than 200 million images. They don’t so much reinvent the wheel as they build on what Microsoft has injected into the Bing experience over the past three months or so. And - no surprise - it heavily revolves around AI.Īt a preview event this week in New York City, Microsoft execs including Yusuf Mehdi, the CVP and consumer chief marketing officer, gave members of the press, including this reporter, a look at the range of features heading to Bing over the next few days, weeks and months. Microsoft is embarking on the next phase of Bing’s expansion.
