Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot chatbot, formerly known as Bing Chat, has left the public preview status several months after it launch and is now considered to be generally available.
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Microsoft is currently trying to add in the more powerful GPT-4 Turbo to its Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) AI services. It may also finally increase the 5,000-character limit for the chatbot.
Microsoft has announced a set of changes for its AI-powered chatbots. Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise are now Copilot. In addition, it unveiled Copilot Studio and Copilot for Sales.
In a new interview, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman says that he hopes Microsoft keeps investing in the company while it tries to develop and create true artificial general intelligence,
Microsoft has announced it has launched a version of its Bing Webmaster Tools app for Android smartphones and tablets. It will allow website admins to keep track of site traffic while on the go.
Microsoft and Oracle have announced another new multi-year agreement that will let Microsoft use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Bing services. Financial details were not disclosed.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on stage as part of OpenAI's first DevDay developer conference and used it to reinforce the two companies' partnership and its plans for the future.
Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a new feature in its Bing Chat chatbot, which will allow users to import tables made in the chatbot to the Excel spreadsheet app and then edit them.
Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin took to Twitter today to ask Bing Chat users if Microsoft should concentrate on making Bing Chat faster or making DALL-E 3.0 faster for Bing Image Creator
Microsoft has revealed a new bug bounty program created specifically to award researchers who find issues in its Bing AI experiences. Submissions could get up to $15,000 for each bug.
Microsoft is rumored to officially announce its plans to make its own processor designed to run generative AI services like Bing Chat and Copilot in November at its Ignite 2023 conference.
Someone got around Microsoft's Bing Chat CAPTCHA security block over the weekend by framing a request to unlock the text message as a translation for a fake dead grandmother's locket.
The introduction of OpenAI's Dall-E 3 in Microsoft's Bing Image Creator has caused an uptick in its use and as such generating images is taking longer than usual so Microsoft is adding more GPUs.
Microsoft has confirmed that OpenAI's recently announced DALL-E 3 AI art generator is now available for all users of Bing Image Creator. It's also been added to Bing Chat Enterprise.
Bing AI Chat may be serving bad and malicious websites via ads to the users. A new report tested Bing Ads and found it relatively easy for someone to inject malicious ads into Bing AI Chat.
Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin revealed the "No Search feature that was in testing with a small number of Bing Chat users has now turned into a plugin, and will be a part of the general plugin launch.
Mikhail Parakhin, the recently named head of Microsoft's new Windows team, hinted strongly that the just announced DALL-E 3 generative AI art maker is already part of Bing Image Creator.
A new report includes parts of an internal memo sent by Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi, teasing how Thursday's press event in New York City will offer more info on the company's AI efforts.
Microsoft has confirmed that a code update briefly brought down its Bing Chat chatbot AI service earlier today. It now appears to be working correctly after a rollback of the code update.
Microsoft has officially added Bing Chat in its Microsoft Launcher app for Android. It has also officially released a way to continue chatting with the chatbot from the desktop to your smartphone.
Microsoft has announced that admins can now set up the use of Bing Chat Enterprise so that it can be used by a smaller number of users before the generative AI chatbot expands to more users
The latest Bing Chat dev update includes a note that users will now get better chat responses if they are asking for directions. Also, mobile users can get access to live traffic updates.
Windows Insiders in the Beta and Dev channels who are commercial users can soon access Microsoft's recently revealed chatbot AI Bing Chat Enterprise in the preview for Windows Copilot.
Microsoft has now confirmed that its Bing Chat chatbot AI is available for all Chrome Stable version users on the desktop. It's also expanded Bing Chat Enterprise for Edge Mobile browser users.
The beta version of the Microsoft Launcher app for Android devices now allows users to access the Bing Chat AI chatbot, either in text or voice. There's also a new Bing Search widget.
The much requested No Search feature is now being tested with a small number of Bing Chat users, allowing those folks to get answers to questions without the chatbot searching the web.
Incorporating Microsoft Designer into the Edge web browser will allow users to access AI-based designer tools in the browser window. Microsoft also added some new Bing chat features.
Generative AI could have a disproportionate impact on female workers according to the International Labour Organization, a United Nations body. It warned clerical workers could be hit hard.
Available as a public preview for Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 faculty users, Bing Chat Enterprise will allow those educators to help create ideas and draft new content for students in their classrooms.
Amazon is trying to catch up to the generative AI trend by developing two custom chips that its AWS customers can use to train large language models to compete with NVIDIA and others.
Bing Chat Enterprises plans, which offers more security and privacy features for the Bing Chat chatbot AI for businesses and organizations, is coming soon to Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Microsoft launched Bing AI six months ago. During this period, the company was busy adding new features, further expanding the service's capabilities. Here is a recap of what the company has done.
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Dark mode has been one of the most requested features for both Bing Chat and Bing Search, and now Microsoft has officially started to roll out dark mode on a wide basis to those users.
Microsoft is expanding the reach of Bing Chat to more users on Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers, but it's still being tested and is not available to everyone just yet.
The feature was discovered by someone who noticed this in the most recent Edge Canary build of the browser, which offers a shortcut to access Edge settings with Bing Chat voice commands.
Bing Chat Enterprise is now available in a public preview, and will give businesses access to chatbot AI features, but with commercial data protection that will keep company infomation safe.
Visual search, which was tested with a limited number of Bing Chat users for the past several weeks, will analyze images and, combined with text prompts, come up with answers based on the image.
The Federal Trade Commission has asked OpenAI for documents related to its ChatGPT chatbot, including if it has received complaints from users about "false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” content
While Microsoft didn't have an official Bing Chat development update this week, the company's team members posted some news on various features that have been tested or revealed this week.
