Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Bing With Visual Answers and Plugins
Microsoft removes the Bing Chat waitlist and introduces a suite of new AI features, including image-rich answers and third-party plugin support.
Microsoft removes the waitlist for its AI-powered Bing Chat, making the tool accessible to anyone with a Microsoft Account. This move comes as the company reveals a new wave of features designed to build on the success of its GPT-4 integrated search engine, which currently boasts over 100 million daily active users engaging in half a billion chats.
The upcoming updates make Bing significantly more visual and personalized. Bing Chat now provides image-rich answers to informational questions, displaying relevant graphics directly within the chat interface. Additionally, users gain the ability to export their chat histories and connect third-party plugins to pull in outside content.
Microsoft also embraces multimodality by enabling Bing Chat to understand and answer questions about uploaded images. Company executives describe these cumulative updates as the start of the next generation of their search mission, signaling a long-term commitment to transforming how users interact with information online.