Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Bing and Edge to Open Preview
Microsoft removes the Bing AI waitlist and introduces visual, multimodal search capabilities. The update brings chat history and persistent sessions to over 100 million daily active users.
Microsoft officially opens its AI-powered Bing and Edge to all users by eliminating the waitlist and moving to an Open Preview phase. This expansion makes the copilot for the web accessible directly from the Windows taskbar to over half a billion monthly customers. The platform combines OpenAI's GPT-4 with Microsoft's massive search index to deliver current, cited, and conversational results.
The tech giant reveals impressive early adoption metrics just 90 days after the initial launch, with users engaging in over half a billion chats and generating 200 million images via Bing Image Creator. Bing now exceeds 100 million daily active users, and mobile app installs jump by four times since the debut. These milestones coincide with eight consecutive quarters of growth for the Microsoft Edge browser.
This next generation of AI search shifts from basic text interactions to highly visual experiences featuring rich image and video answers, with multimodal support arriving soon. Users also gain the ability to maintain productivity across multiple sessions through new chat history and persistent chat features. These upgrades fundamentally change how people find and interact with information online.