Bing Has Been Using OpenAI’s New GPT-4 For Five-Weeks
Microsoft Bing confirmed minutes after OpenAI announced the new version of GPT, GPT-4, that Bing uses that upgraded model. Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft said, “We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, customized for search.”
Bing Sidebar In Stable Edge Browser & Bing Chat Limits Increase With Quicker Responses
Microsoft announced a few updates for the Bing Chat AI co-pilot including that they increased the Bing Chat limits to 15/150 and also is testing an optimized “balanced” mode response that provides shorter and quicker responses. Bing also released the B…
Bing Search Featured Answers Might Be Replaced By Bing Chat Answers
Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing, said on Twitter that Bing may replace the top answers, featured, and knowledge answers they use today on Bing Search with the Bing Chat answers. “Yep, they use old technology and crowdsourcing, we will repl…
Bing Chat Also Has Answer Cards, In Addition To News, Shopping, Local…
Did you know that Bing Chat also can give you an answer card or box under the chat-based response with citations? We saw Bing provide news cards, local cards, shopping cards, and more but not answer cards.
Microsoft Bing Working On Saving Chats & More Features
Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin said that the number one feature request is for Bing Chat to save historical chats for later for users to come back to them later or look them up later. And it seems like they are working on that feature request, plus more.
Bing Chat Showing Unique Referrer In Edge Sidebar For Analytics
We all want to see how much traffic the new Bing Chat feature will send us and we know Bing Webmaster Tools will eventually add it. But how about analytics? Well, there are signs Bing Chat is adding some tracking variables for analytics software.
Bing Tests Site Favicon On Right Of Search Result Snippet
Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site’s favicon on the right side of the search result title’s snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover over, but he…
Bing Summarized From Sources & The Web Answer Box
Microsoft Bing seems to be incorporating more of its Chat AI features into answer boxes in the main search results. Bing is testing a “summarized” box that gives you summary answers from X sources and the web.
Bing Chat AI v96 Live: Less Hallucinations & More Responses
Microsoft fully launched the quality updates in version 96 of Bing AI Chat on February 28th. It is a tad late, but it is live and reduces cases where Bing refuses to reply and instances of hallucination in answers.
Bing “Content Medically Reviewed By” Doctor For Health Queries
Microsoft Bing now shows if the content is medically reviewed by a medical professional for health-related search queries. So if you search for [heart burn] or other health-related queries, Bing will show you which doctor reviewed the content and even …
Bing AI Chat Now Tests Response Tones: Precise, Balanced & Creative
Microsoft Bing is testing a feature to set the tone you get from Bing AI Chat. You can select precise, balanced and creative tones.
New Bing AI Chat Now On Mobile With Voice Search
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that the new Bing AI Chat features are available for some users on the Bing mobile app and Edge mobile app on iOS and Android. And with that, voice search using Bing AI chat is just so sweet.
Microsoft Bing Tests Image Creator In Search Results
Last October, Microsoft introduced its Image Creator tool to help you create images using AI. Well, now Bing seems to be testing this in the web and image search results in some regions.
Prometheus: Why Bing AI Chat Is So Fast & Up-To-Date
Microsoft’s Jordi Ribas, Corporate Vice President of Search & AI at Microsoft put together a detailed blog post explaining the Prometheus technology and how Bing uses it to make Bing AI chat fast and current.
Bing AI Chat In Edge Sidebar Tests Not Showing Citations For Some Results
Microsoft Bing is testing not showing the citations or links to publishers by default for some results in the Edge Sidebar. So instead of showing the links to the publishers, Bing is showing “click to view” and when you click it, then Bing will show y…
Microsoft Bing Fixes The Bing AI Chat “Something Went Wrong” Issue
Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing, said on Twitter that they have fixed the systematic “Something went wrong” issue that some of you have seen over the past week or so with the new Bing AI Chat.
Microsoft To Release Major Quality Improvement For Bing AI Chat On Thursday
A major quality improvement should be coming to the new Bing AI Chat feature on Thursday, February 23rd said Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft.
Microsoft Bing Search APIs Price Going Up 10x
Microsoft is increasing the price of using the Bing Search APIs by 10x the current cost, effective May 1, 2023, the company posted. That includes using the API for Bing image search, news search, video search, visual search, web search, entity search a…
Bing Featured Snippet More Expansion Button
Microsoft Bing has added a “more” button on some featured snippets in the mobile search interface. When you click on the more button, there is this brief and subtle animation that opens up more details from the site.
Microsoft: 71% Of Searchers Give The New Bing Search AI Experience A Thumbs Up
Microsoft published a new blog post on the Bing blog about its learnings from its first week with the new Bing AI search and chat feature being live. Microsoft said the new Bing experience has mostly been “positive,” where “71% of you giving the AI-po…