Microsoft Removes Bing AI Waitlist as Search Copilot Enters New Era
Microsoft transitions its AI-powered Bing and Edge from a limited preview to an open preview, eliminating the waitlist completely. The update brings visual answers, multimodal support, and persistent chat history to over 100 million daily active users.
Microsoft removes the waitlist for its AI-powered Bing and Edge, transitioning the platform from a limited preview to an open preview. This major shift allows anyone to access the copilot for the web, which combines OpenAI's GPT-4 with Microsoft's massive search index to deliver current, cited, and conversational results. The company makes this move after seeing tremendous growth, with users engaging in over half a billion chats and generating 200 million images in just 90 days.
The tech giant now expands its capabilities by moving beyond text-only search and chat to offer rich visual answers containing images and videos. Furthermore, Bing introduces multimodal support to understand and process various types of input. The platform also evolves from isolated, single-use search sessions into a continuous productivity tool by implementing chat history and persistent chats that remember context over time.
These updates fundamentally change how people interact with the web by solving the problem of unanswered searches through natural language conversations. Bing currently exceeds 100 million daily active users, and mobile app installs jump four times since the initial launch. With its deep integration into the Windows taskbar, this next generation of AI search reaches over half a billion customers every month.