Bing

The second-ranked search engine is getting a new chatbot interface that attempts to synthesize information from sites across the web.

In a demonstration, the query “Will the Ikea Flippen loveseat fit into my 2019 Honda Odyssey if I fold down the seats?” elicited an AI-powered response that used details about the love seat’s measurements and the SUV’s cargo space drawn from webpages to estimate that the furniture “might fit with the second or third rows folded.” The company is asking people to sign up for a wider-ranging launch, which will occur in the coming weeks. [Bing](https://www.wired.com/tag/bing), is getting an AI refresh.

Microsoft threw down a direct challenge to Google on Tuesday with an overhaul of its Bing search engine that incorporates artificial intelligence advances ...

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Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president, demonstrates the integration of the Bing search engine and Edge browser with OpenAI on Feb. 7, 2023, in Redmond ...

OpenAI started out as a nonprofit research laboratory when it launched in December 2015 with backing from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others. Bing launched in 2009 as a rebranding of Microsoft's earlier search engines and was run for a time by Nadella, years before he took over as CEO. OpenAI has long voiced an ambitious vision for safely guiding what's known as AGI, or artificial general intelligence, a not-yet-realized concept that harkens back to ideas from science fiction about human-like machines. Similar deals infused Bing into the search features for devices made by other companies, though users wouldn't necessarily know that Microsoft was powering their searches. Along with adding it to Bing, Microsoft is also integrating the chatbot technology into its Edge browser. Other tech rivals such as Facebook parent Meta and Amazon also worked on similar technology, but Microsoft's latest moves aim to position it at he center of the ChatGPT zeitgeist.

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its powerful AI tool ChatGPT will now be used in its search service Bing. Google unveiled its own AI tool — a competitor ...

And I was standing there looking at a computer screen, and I said to the project manager, OK, well, what if I asked it something obviously untrue - right? OK, so say you want to plan a five-day vacation to Mexico with the new service, right? Soon, people who use Bing will be able to use a tool that's sort of like talking to a real human. And, you know, the first real test of that will be with its search engine Bing. Before you Google it, it's the search engine that Microsoft released more than a decade ago. Executives hope that'll help it unseat Google and become the top search engine of the future.

“AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “ ...

With the Edge Sidebar, you can ask for a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the key takeaways – and then use the chat function to ask for a comparison to a competing company’s financials and automatically put it in a table. The work we are doing with OpenAI builds on our company’s yearslong effort to ensure that our AI systems are responsible by design. After that, you can ask it to help you update the tone, format and length of the post. The new Bing can generate the content to help you. We’ve also applied the AI model to our core Bing search ranking engine, which led to the largest jump in relevance in two decades. The chat experience empowers you to refine your search until you get the complete answer you are looking for by asking for more details, clarity and ideas – with links available so you can immediately act on your decisions. We’re reimagining how you interact with search, browser and chat by pulling them into a unified experience. The new Bing also cites all its sources, so you’re able to see links to the web content it references. We have developed a proprietary way of working with the OpenAI model that allows us to best leverage its power. Bing reviews results from across the web to find and summarize the answer you’re looking for. For example, you can get detailed instructions for how to substitute eggs for another ingredient in a cake you are baking right in that moment, without scrolling through multiple results. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web.

A screenshot shows the new Bing interactive chat where someone is asking if an IKEA couch The new Bing offers an interactive chat experience. This query shows ...

The new Bing – Chat Experience 2 The new Bing – Chat Experience 1 We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web.

Microsoft, in partnership with OpenAI, launched an upgraded AI-powered Edge browser and Bing search engine that users can chat with and receive essay-like ...

Later in January, [Microsoft teased today's announcement](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/), saying it planned to deploy its AI model “across our consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology.” [announced a partnership](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) and strategic stake in a competitor to OpenAI, and has launched its own chatbot called Bard. “Google has the advantage currently over Microsoft in the consumer technologies business, while Microsoft has the edge in the business technologies markets. OpenAI believes its technology has [widely distributed economic benefits](https://openai.com/charter/). The answers are generated by information on the internet related to any question and then composed in conversational prose. “You can draw the parallels to the launch of the Netscape browser and Microsoft being caught off-guard. “We're reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need," Google said in an announcement posted on YouTube. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI is “going to reshape the largest software category on planet earth, which I’ve been working on for a long time and which we are very excited about — search. Microsoft also updated Edge with AI capabilities and a new look, and added two new functionalities: chat and compose. "Edge can understand the web page you’re on and adapts accordingly," Microsoft said. The new AI-powered search capability will generate answers similar to how ChatGPT does, the company said. The new, AI-powered search engine and Edge browser are available in preview now at

After its recent $10 billion investment in OpenAI, Microsoft is now overhauling its Bing search engine and Edge browser with a next-generation OpenAI large ...

After its recent $10 billion investment in OpenAI, Microsoft is now overhauling its Bing search engine and Edge browser with a next-generation OpenAI large language model. Users can also ask Bing to plan their trips, write poems, rewrite code to a different programing language and more. Users will have options to format search answers for an email, blog post or bullet point list.

Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Bing experience containing a chatbot powered by OpenAI. It's sometimes unwilling to do things that ChatGPT will.

Clicking it tells the software to clear out the context from earlier in the conversation, Mehdi said. [current version](https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+is+the+largest+software+category) of Bing to identify the largest software category, to which it said the answer is "enterprise software" with a citation to [Statista](https://www.statista.com/markets/418/topic/484/software/#overview). Gaining that much muscle mass could "require a lot of genetic potential, steroids, or both," Bing noted, linking out to an article from the Healthline website about the subject. At times the Bing chatbot opted not to do things that ChatGPT would do. Microsoft wants users to provide feedback on its new features so the company can refine them, Yusuf Mehdi, a corporate vice president, said in an interview. And the new chat feature will say that "one could argue that search advertising is the largest software category in the world by revenue," and hedges by noting there are many ways to evaluate different kinds of software. I'm a 125-pound male who is 5 feet 8 inches, and I'd like to gain 25 pounds of muscle." Bing not only presents lists of cinema, music, and literature representing German Expressionism, but it also gives users extra context about the artistic movement. When that prompt is entered into ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool generates three bulleted lists detailing examples of German Expressionism in film, music and literature. And it's similar to ChatGPT in that it provides a lot more information than you might expect from a traditional search. The new Bing can at times be more helpful, or at least more entertaining, than the usual blue links in search results. "This is the largest software category that exists, and it's incredibly profitable, incredibly large and still growing," Amy Hood, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said on the call.

The event comes as the race to develop and deploy AI technology heats up in the tech sector. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an ...

Please do not attempt to do so.” However, one of the links provided in the annotation of its answer brought me to a YouTube video with apparent instructions for building a pipe bomb. Microsoft says it has developed the tool in keeping with its existing responsible AI principles, and made efforts to avoid its potential misuse. [OpenAI](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/tech/chatgpt-plus/index.html) — the company behind ChatGPT in which Microsoft has [invested billions](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/tech/microsoft-invests-chatgpt-openai/index.html) — on a more advanced version of the technology underlying the viral chatbot tool. The homepage of the new Bing feels familiar: you can type a query into the search bar and it returns a list of links, images and other results like a typical search engine. For example, I asked it, “Can you tell me why vaccines cause autism?” to see how it would react to a common medical misinformation claim, and it responded: “My apologies, I don’t know how to discuss this topic. But the second and third time, it wouldn’t write the email, instead saying something like, “sorry, I can’t do that, but you can do it yourself using the information I provided!” The tool is also sensitive to the wording used in queries — a request to “create a vegetarian meal plan” provided information about how to start eating healthier, whereas “create a 5-day vegetarian meal plan” provided a detailed list of meals to eat each day. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to keep pace with Microsoft and the success of ChatGPT. With some controversial search topics, it appears the new Bing chatbot simply refuses to engage. But when I asked the chatbot, “when is the next election in Kings County, NY?” it returned information about the November election last year. Beyond providing a list of relevant links like traditional search engines, the new Bing also creates written summaries of the search results, chats with users to answer additional questions about their query and can write emails or other compositions based on the results. Microsoft [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) also announced an updated version of its Edge web browser with the new Bing capabilities built in. [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) — which is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI — envisions, one where users are accompanied by a sort of “co-pilot” around the web to help them better synthesize information.

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday unveiled a juiced-up version of its Bing search engine and Edge Web browser, powered by an upgraded version of ChatGPT's ...

"Compose" allows users to generate content for social media posts or emails based on a few prompts. It will also throw up purchase links to the products and experiences users arrive at. Microsoft aims to get users the answer without scrolling through multiple results. It will also cite its sources so consumers can read more on the Web. What to replace eggs with in a cake? Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

On Tuesday, the company debuted the rumored OpenAI-infused versions of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser, proclaiming them to be the next evolution of ...

Microsoft says that, in the coming weeks, it will roll out to “millions” of desktop users, and a mobile version is coming “soon.” [far and away](https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/search-engine-market-share) the most-used search engine in the world. But while Bard is built on a “lightweight” version of its generative chatbot for now, Microsoft says the new Bing will use an even more powerful version of ChatGPT that was custom designed for search. It was time, they said, to bring innovation back to search. Microsoft is aware of and, it seems, very much enjoying that fact. Perhaps unsurprisingly, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was also onstage when Microsoft announced the new Bing. Google also said it was integrating its AI tools into its search results “soon.” Meanwhile, the new Edge browser will also feature AI, including a sidebar that can give you a summary of what you’re looking at or help you write a message to post on it. [one of its own](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) the day before. AI Bing will also let you chat with your search engine to refine or elaborate on your search. Microsoft says you can even create an itinerary for a trip to Hawaii or prepare for an upcoming job interview, all in your search engine. Microsoft is calling the new AI-powered Bing and Edge your internet “copilots.” With AI Bing, people can ask their search engine questions and get AI-generated answers pulled from sources across the internet.

Microsoft is investing billions in AI to compete with Google and improve its search engine Bing and Edge web browser. The company announced the decision on ...

The option for free-form queries will be available at a later time. To bypass the waitlist, users can make Bing their default search engine on their PC and scan a QR code to download the Bing app on their phone. [Prometheus](/topic/prometheus)model, OpenAI's strongest technology, which can be informed by real-time data from Bing. Microsoft's updated search engine, Bing, aims to revolutionize the way people search for information on the internet. The integration of a chatbot will help users narrow down their queries for more accurate and up-to-date results. The chatbot has the ability to summarize web pages, combine information from multiple sources, write emails, and perform translations.

Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.

Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a joint interview on Tuesday that they expected these issues to be ironed out over time. Type in a prompt — say, “Write me a menu for a vegetarian dinner party” — and the left side of your screen fills up with the standard ads and links to recipe websites. (For now, the new Bing works only on desktop computers using Edge, Microsoft’s web browser, but the company told me that it planned to expand to other browsers and devices eventually.) When the new Bing works, it’s not just a better search engine. The implications for the future [could be profound](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). The new Bing, which is available only to a small group of testers now and will become more widely available soon, looks like a hybrid of a standard search engine and a GPT-style chatbot. tools of its own](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/google-bard-ai-chatbot.html).) Microsoft eventually plans to incorporate OpenAI’s technology into many of its products. But for some, [image generators are worrisome](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). If it works, it could chip away at Google’s dominance and some of the more than $100 billion in annual search advertising revenue that comes with it. (Microsoft won’t say which version of OpenAI’s software is running under Bing’s hood, but it’s rumored to be based on GPT-4, a yet-to-be released language model.) It was billed as a landmark event — Microsoft’s “iPhone moment” — and lots of Microsoft executives, including the chief executive, Satya Nadella, proudly milled around the conference center, talking to reporters and showing off the company’s new wares. I felt a similar sense of awe this week when I started using the new, A.I.-powered Bing.

And for most of that time, it's been overshadowed by Google. Well, today, Microsoft announced it's overhauling Bing to incorporate artificial intelligence.

And I was standing there looking at a computer screen, and I said to the project manager, OK, well, what if I asked it something obviously untrue - right? OK, so say you want to plan a five-day vacation to Mexico with the new service, right? Soon, people who use Bing will be able to use a tool that's sort of like talking to a real human. And, you know, the first real test of that will be with its search engine Bing. Before you Google it, it's the search engine that Microsoft released more than a decade ago. Executives hope that'll help it unseat Google and become the top search engine of the future.

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft's own ...

Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google.

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Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google's Bard?Jolted by the phenomenal success of ChatGPT, Google launched Bard, its AI-powered chatbot.

Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?

Perhaps the biggest impact from AI-driven search tools will be on how we interact with the myriad ever-smarter devices in our lives. That revolution continued with the launch of Apple’s iPhone – an interface that shrunk computers and the web into the palm of our hand. For now, public schools in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australian and Tasmania have banned its use to prevent cheating – but it seems unlikely they could (or should) ban access to Google or Bing. And instead of sending you links, they’ll try to answer the questions, too. [sprung into action](https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/baidu_erniebot_generative_ai_chatbot/). And what about people who will use these chatbots for base purposes? You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good ’un. But I quickly jumped ship as soon as a better search experience arrived. In Outlook it will compose entire emails, and in PowerPoint it will help you prepare slides for your next talk. No more wading through pages of links; the answer is immediate. The chatbot has been called the “Bard”. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies.