Microsoft Launches AI-Powered Bing & Edge – Your Copilot for the Web
Microsoft has launched an all-new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser. The new Bing and Edge are designed as an AI copilot for the web, offering better search, complete answers, a unique chat experience, and the ability to generate content. The company aims to improve how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the daily tools billions of people use.
Features of the New Bing & Edge
- Better search: The new Bing provides more relevant results for simple queries such as sports scores, stock prices, and weather, with a unique sidebar for comprehensive answers.
- Complete answers: Bing reviews results from across the web to provide a summarized answer to your search query.
- A new chat experience: For complex searches, the new Bing offers an interactive chat experience to refine your search until you get the complete answer you are looking for.
- A creative spark: The new Bing can generate content to help you write an email, create a vacation itinerary, or create a quiz, citing all sources.
- Improved Microsoft Edge: The Edge browser has been updated with new AI capabilities and a new look, adding two new functionalities – Chat and compose. With the Edge Sidebar, you can ask for a summary of a lengthy report and use the chat function to compare it to another company’s financials.
Advantages of the New Bing Experience
- The new Bing is running on a next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT and customized for search.
- Microsoft has developed a proprietary way of working with the OpenAI model, known as the Prometheus model, which provides more relevant, timely, and targeted results with improved safety.
- The AI model has been applied to the core Bing search ranking engine, resulting in the largest jump in relevance in two decades.
- The new Bing pulls together search, browsing, and chat into a unified experience, making it easier and more fun to explore the web.
In conclusion, Microsoft’s new Bing and Edge are designed to help people get more from search and the web, unlocking the joy of discovery and the wonder of creation. The preview of the new Bing and Edge is now available at Bing.com.