Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Bing and Edge to Open Preview
Microsoft removes the waitlist for its AI-powered Bing and Edge, introducing visual answers and chat history. The platform hits 100 million daily active users after 500 million chats in just 90 days.
Microsoft officially removes the waitlist for its AI-powered Bing and Edge, transitioning the platform from a limited preview to an open preview. This change makes the innovative search copilot accessible to a much broader audience, just three months after its initial debut. The integration of OpenAI's GPT-4 with Microsoft's massive search index allows users to receive current, cited, and conversational answers to their queries.
The platform achieves remarkable milestones, surpassing 100 million daily active users and sparking over half a billion chats. Users also generate more than 200 million images using the built-in Bing Image Creator. Additionally, the Bing mobile app sees a fourfold increase in daily installs, while Microsoft Edge continues its growth for an eighth consecutive quarter.
This next generation of AI search introduces major new capabilities designed to transform how people interact with the web. Bing now provides highly visual answers incorporating images and videos, with upcoming multimodal support on the horizon. Furthermore, users benefit from enhanced productivity through chat history and persistent chats, moving beyond isolated search sessions into continuous, multi-session workflows.