Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Bing and Edge to Open Preview
Microsoft removes the Bing AI waitlist and introduces visual, multi-session search capabilities as the platform surpasses 100 million daily active users.
Microsoft transitions its AI-powered Bing and Edge from a limited preview to an open preview, eliminating the waitlist for new users. This expansion makes the intelligent search copilot accessible to a much broader audience directly from the Windows taskbar, reaching over half a billion customers every month.
The platform achieves remarkable milestones just 90 days after its initial launch, surpassing 100 million daily active users and experiencing a fourfold increase in mobile app installations. Users engage in over half a billion chats and generate more than 200 million images, proving the demand for conversational search that combines OpenAI's GPT-4 with a massive search index.
This next generation of AI search moves beyond basic text interactions by introducing rich visual answers featuring images and videos, with upcoming multimodal support. Additionally, Microsoft upgrades the experience from isolated single-use sessions to persistent, multi-session productivity chats that include full chat history, fundamentally changing how people navigate the web.