As we announced earlier this week, with Bing Image Creator you can now turn words into pictures to truly express your imagination, giving you access to infinite image possibilities right from within Bing. A vivid dream, a birthday invitation to fit a unique theme, the new concept you’re trying to land at work. These are personal and specific. These are things that require a unique image to express your unique idea. Even better is that you can ask for these pictures in the flow of your conversation with the new Bing chat.  Much like in my first blog about Building the New Bing, I’d ..read more

A year and a half ago, I wrote an article suggesting that search was far from a solved problem, and that in fact it was poised for a revolution. I suggested that by applying deep learning models and making search more modern and intuitive, we could significantly improve the experience for our users. I’m thrilled to see that we are making a large step forward towards this vision with the recent announcement of the new Bing. We’ve received many questions in the last couple of weeks of the current preview, so I’d like to share a little bit more about the new Bing and how it came to be. Behind th ..read more

- By Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, and Saurabh Tiwary, Corporate VP and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Turing  The AI research community is focusing attention on large language models (LLMs) given their impressive performance with difficult tasks and value in useful applications. The capabilities of the models have stimulated many research questions: How do these models work and what do they learn? How can we leverage their potential for new innovations and discoveries? How can we mitigate potentially harmful behaviors? These and many other questions are inspiring new and challengi ..read more

Today, we are thrilled to announce that the most recent addition to our Turing Universal Language Representation Model family (T-ULRv6) has achieved the 1st position on both the Google XTREME and GLUE leaderboards, demonstrating that a single multilingual model can achieve state-of-the-art capabilities in both English and Multilingual understanding tasks. This marks the first time that a multilingual language understanding model has achieved the top position on both leaderboards, outperforming models that are specialized for either English or multilingual tasks and thereby helping lift the cur ..read more

The Bing search stack is built for speed at all layers. Fast performance delights users and drives loyalty and engagement. This blog presents the key performance techniques used by Bing’s front-end to deliver and render search results pages with world-class speed. Front-End Delivery Architecture Performance starts with architecture. Search queries to Bing return a “search results page” that is generated using Server-Side Rendering (SSR). The delivery architecture is shown below. Figure 1: Front-End Delivery Architecture Chunked Delivery The search results page HTML is delivered to the client ..read more

Have you ever experienced that feeling when you recognize a person, food, animal, but just can't put a name to it? Microsoft Bing has a feature that identifies people, animals, landmarks, food items in a given image. This feature saves you the hassle of having to keep searching to find your answer and prevents you walking away disappointed because you couldn't quite put your finger on it…   Let Bing connect the dots for you!   People Can you recall a time where you couldn't quite remember the name of a specific actor/actress in that new movie you started watching? Or when you search ..read more

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As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Pictures help us to capture our favorite memories and experience the world around us. But that memory or experience is degraded significantly when we encounter a low quality image. Maybe the photo was taken with an old camera, the dimensions of the image are too small, or the file was overly compressed at some point. We can all probably think of a time when we had the perfect image - a prized portrait of a family member to be framed or the best screenshot to illustrate your point in a presentation - but could not use it because the qua ..read more

Web navigation and exploration is an area of reasoning wherein users consume and assimilate information from multiple sources like text, images, or other modalities. In addition, it is multi-hop and exploratory in nature where users often use multiple sources to aggregate different facets of information. Most question answering (QA) systems treat the web primarily as a text-only landscape and this may limit the scope of information that can be extracted. For example, when searching for a query like ‘what color is the belly of a green tree frog’, surfacing the image of the green tree frog along ..read more

Microsoft Bing is constantly developing new ways to provide users with more relevant, accurate, and visually appealing results. We innovate, collaborate, and adopt cutting-edge advances in natural language processing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to inspire and deliver the best experiences at an internet scale across billions of web queries and images. In recent years, much ground-breaking work in image and video retrieval, auto-captioning, and visual question answering has ensued because of the development of transformer-based techniques for computer vision and natural langua ..read more