According to a new report, some senior Microsoft execs are apparently eyeing a deal with Mozilla's Firefox in a bid to replace Google as the default search engine, with its own New Bing.
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Other new features that will be added soon to Bing Chat include the ability to quickly export and share chats with others, improvements in creating summaries of long documents, and more.
A new and better format for showing math solutions is currently being tested by a small percentage of Bing Chat users and will become available for everyone in the very near future.
The new upper limit on chat turns in Bing Chat was confirmed by Microsoft VP Michael Schechter, but it may just be temporary as he indicated that it was only being tested this past weekend.
A new report claims Microsoft has told two search engines that get some data from Bing to not use that information to power their own AI chatbots, which could compete with Microsoft's Bing Chat.
Microsoft has fixed some nagging Bing Chat issues, including some improvements with detecting a voice in the Bing mobile app and more, but the ability to save chat histories is still in development.
This is yet another little-known feature in Microsoft's new Bing services that the company is revealing in a brand new blog post, along with some more background on Bing Image Creator.
Bing Image Creator will allow Bing Chat preview users to create images based on prompts to the chatbot AI while it is in Creative mode. Microsoft is also adding Visual Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0.
The new sharing feature is one of several new additions to Bing Chat that Microsoft mentions in a new blog post, alongside faster responses when the service is set to “Balanced” mode and more.
Online reports seem to confirm that Microsoft is now letting people try the new Bing Chat immediately without having to wait, which may mean the company is very confident in its chatbot AI.
Creative mode in Bing Chat now supports large context, and faster responses are close to launching, but uploading images might take a while as it is "much more expensive" to support.
Microsoft has once again raised the cap of chat turn limits in Bing Chat, and it's also making a change in the Balance tone selection to make it provide quicker and shorter answers.
The Featured Answers section of a normal Bing Search may soon be replaced with answers from Bing Chat, along with an improved UI, according to Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin in a Twitter exchange.
The daily chat turn limit for Microsoft's Bing chatbot AI was quietly added, even as the session turn limits went down from eight to six briefly due to a bug that has since been fixed.
Microsoft quietly added the celebrity impersonator mode in Bing Chat this weekend, which is supposed to let the chatbot AI give responses as if it was a famous person like The Rock.
The new Skype build for Insiders also includes a launch screen animation for the Android version of the app, and a way to launch a Skype-to-Skype call from the Touch Bar on Mac PCs.
People currently testing Microsoft's Bing Chat have discovered some interesting features, including a way to play chess, finding recipes for what you have in your pantry, and much more.
Microsoft continues to modify its Bing Chat limits expanding the number of chat turns in individual sessions from six to eight turns. Also, the new Tone Selector could get changed based on feedback.
Microsoft has once again talked about the new Bing Chat Tone selector toggles, along with some fixes when using the chatbot in the Edge Dev channel browser for Windows and even more.
Microsoft's Bing Chat can sometimes create ASCII artwork when asked to show the user some pictures of items. The chatbot AI model has apparently learned how to create this kind or art recently.
The new "smooth scrolling" feature in Bing Chat should make reading and keeping track of messages from the chatbot much easier for its users as it continues its public beta testing.
The latest version of Microsoft's Bing Chat AI bot will also reportedly reduce the number of times the chatbot will refuse to answer a question from the user for no real reason.
This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly contains interesting news items about ads for Edge, current and upcoming Windows development, and bugs in Microsoft's OS. Find out more in our latest digest!
As promised, Microsoft has boosted the amount of daily chat turns in the new Bing Chat to 100, after previously limiting those turns to 50 a day. Also SERP queries don't count anymore as chat turns.
Microsoft has expanded the number of daily chat turns and sessions for the new Bing chatbot to 60 turns a day and six turns per session. Major improvements for Bing are promised for Thursday.
People who have been invited to test the new and full Bing experience are reporting they can now see the new Bing UI on mobile apps and browser, but right now it doesn't seem to work.
This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is chock-full of news about the new Bing's weirdness, a bunch of Windows bugs and patches, and some new features coming to Microsoft software.
A new report claims to have found that Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI can switch to different modes, including one for playing games, one for being a personal assistant, and one for Just being a friend.
Microsoft now says the new Bing chatbot AI will be limited to just 50 chat turns per day, and just five chat turns per session, as it seeks to keep Bing's answers to questions on point.
Microsoft has shared some statistics regarding the response and feedback related to its new AI-powered Bing experience, currently in preview. It has also detailed what's next for the chatbot.
Tesla founder and Twitter CEO Elon Musk said this week that while AI programs like ChatGPT and others have a lot of promise, they can also come with "great danger" and they need to be regulated.
Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi has shared that demand for the new Bing experience is in "multiple millions." And amid high demands, he has also shared some tips to quickly let you through the waitlist.
In a recent interview, actor Keanu Reeves discussed the rise of artificial intelligence and what it means for artists and writers. He also talked about deepfakes, the metaverse, and Cyberpunk 2077.
Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said this week that chatbots like ChatGPT, the new Bing, and Google's own Bard, "are still in the early days" and it could take up to two years for them to be useful.
Now that the first invites to try out Microsoft's new Bing chatbot have been sent out, it looks like some users are asking questions that generate some rather odd and even mean responses.
NeevaAI, which first launched in the US in January, is available in Canada, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain, offering AI-powered responses to questions, with a subscription plan that has no ads.
After announcing the new chatbot-AI based Bing search engine last week, Microsoft has begun to send invites to people on its waiting list to try out the full version of the new Bing.
Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers the launch of the OpenAI-powered version of Bing, what's next for Windows 11, and a range of updates for first- and third-party software for Windows.
A university student used a prompt injection method in the new Bing chatbot to discover its internal code name at Microsoft, Sydney, along with some other rules that the chatbot is supposed to follow.
The same article claims that Microsoft execs believe the company is well ahead of its rival Google in terms of its AI technology, thanks to its investments in ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
