Microsoft's New ChatGPT-Powered Bing Preview Goes Live Today

 

Microsoft reps came out swinging Tuesday in a massive press blitz, though they were acting more like an artificial intelligence-driven Terminator than any live human being. Sure, the product folks at the company’s conference held at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington headquarters and on the company blog talked with all too familiar nerdy excitement, but you can tell Microsoft talked up its newest ChatGPT-like integration into its long-maligned search engine with only one thought in mind: “kill Google.”

In a Tuesday blog post, Microsoft went all in on AI-driven searches. The company launched the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge browser incorporating an AI copilot and chat feature.

Last month, Microsoft announced a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI, the company that created the DALL-E 2 AI image generator and the ChatGPT AI language model.

The new search engine, working on what Microsoft has dubbed OpenAI’s “Prometheus Model” should allow users to input a question and receive a detailed, up-to-date, and annotated answer along with citations from relevant sites. The new Bing search will show a list of links on the left, as usual, but will also showcase an explanatory section on the right. The company claimed this new system is “more powerful than ChatGPT.”

The new Bing search should be available on a limited preview for desktop, but the company said users can visit the Bing website to sign up for a waitlist. The previews for certain prompts are currently very limited, though the company plans to scale the preview version in the coming weeks and will also offer a mobile preview as well.