We announced this week we are bringing Bing Image Creator to the new Bing Preview, powered by an advanced version of the DALL-E model from OpenAI.  The experience has been rolling out in Bing chat over the past several days, and it is now available to everyone in the Bing preview.  Remember that it is currently only available in Creative mode. You can read more about our approach to building Bing Image Creator from Jordi Ribas, CVP of Search & AI.  We also continue to use AI to enhance the search experience on Bing.com.  Here are a few examples of what has changed sin ..read more

Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web, delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. Today we’re taking the chat experience to the next level by making the new Bing more visual – you can read the full details here, or see the summary below. We’re excited to announce we are bringing Bing Image Creator, new AI-powered visual Stories, and updated Knowledge Cards to the new Bing and ..read more

We're very excited by this week’s announcement of the Microsoft 365 Copilot and the power it will bring to unleash your creativity and productivity at work. Some of you may have noticed you’ve received accelerated access into the new Bing preview as part of onboarding tests we’re running.   Here's a summary of what's changed in the product since our March 9 update:   •    Adding Bing Chat and Compose to the Edge Sidebar: Users on Edge v111.0.1661.41 and newer will now see the new Bing icon in the sidebar which includes Chat and Compose experiences designed for Bing ch ..read more

Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today.  We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search. If you’ve used the new Bing preview at any time in the last five weeks, you’ve already experienced an early version of this powerful model. As OpenAI makes updates to GPT-4 and beyond, Bing benefits from those improvements. Along with our own updates based on community feedback, you can be assured that you have the most comprehensive copilot features available.   If you want to experience GPT-4, sign up for ..read more

This week, we’re celebrating a month since the release of the new Bing preview — and we’re continuing to make daily updates.   Here's a summary of what's changed since our March 3 update: •    Increasing Chat Turns: We've increased the maximum number of turns you can have in a single conversation with Bing from 6 to 10.  The total number of turns per day has also increased to 120.  We are experimenting with even longer chat sessions, and you can expect these numbers to continue to increase over time.   •    Faster Skype chats: We heard from ..read more

It’s hard to believe it’s been just over a month since we released the new AI-powered Bing and Edge to the world as your copilot for the web.  In that time, we have heard your feedback, learned a lot, and shipped a number of improvements.  We are delighted by the virtuous cycle of feedback and iteration that is driving strong Bing improvements and usage.   We wanted to share a bit about what we have learned on your usage of Bing and some of the early stats that are helping to shape our future product development. We are pleased to share that after a number of years of steady p ..read more

Today, Microsoft announced a significant update to Windows 11, featuring an array of features that harness the power of AI and improve the way people get things done on their PC. The Bing team is thrilled to share that as a part of this update, we’re bringing the new Bing directly to the Windows taskbar, unlocking more ways to interact with your PC across search, answers, chat, and creation.     It's been just three weeks since we announced the new Bing, and in that time, we’ve been inspired by how our preview testers have incorporated these new AI tools into their everyday life. A ..read more

Today, we’re adding Bing preview capabilities to the Bing and Edge mobile apps, alongside new social integration with Skype. We thank our preview community for providing great feedback over the last two weeks as we continue to shape the future of these products. We’re excited by the response to the preview, which now includes more than one million people in 169 countries and continues to grow daily.   Learn more about our new mobile apps and new Bing capabilities, including voice access, in our latest blog from Yusuf Mehdi.   ..read more

The secret to holiday shopping is finding the right gift – and the secret to finding the right gift online is using the right tool, like Microsoft Bing. Bing gives back time and value, making it faster and easier for you to go from searching to finalizing your holiday shopping. Looking for some inspiration? Search for “Gift ideas” with Bing and – like many search engines – you will be rewarded with millions of results. But from there, Bing helps you cut through the clutter by providing categories of trending products that can help guide your search for that perfect gift. Looking for something ..read more

Last week, we announced our new creator tools in Microsoft 365, Bing, and Edge, designed to help ignite people’s imaginations and express themselves. Today, one of those tools, Image Creator from Microsoft Bing, begins rolling out in a limited preview to select markets and will be coming later this month to Microsoft Edge to those same markets. Image Creator allows you to create an image that doesn’t exist, limited only by your imagination. Simply type in a description of something, any additional context like location or activity, and an art style, and Image Creator will make it for you.  ..read more