Microsoft (MS) has completely opened the search ‘Bing’ equipped with GPT-4 without waiting.

Microsoft announced on its official blog on the 4th (local time) that it would fully open its artificial intelligence (AI) search engine Bing three months after its launch.

Consequently, the prevailing limited preview and waiting list will disappear, and anyone can use Bing search immediately by logging in with their MS account.

Microsoft first announced that greater than 500 million Bing chats were conducted in 90 days, and greater than 200 million images were created with Bing ‘Image Creator’. Each day energetic users have surpassed 100 million, and day by day installs of the Bing mobile app have quadrupled since its launch.

It also emphasized that the share of the Edge browser has grown for eight consecutive quarters, and that it continues to extend the accessibility of Bing through the Windows taskbar, which is utilized by greater than 500 million users monthly.

This massive-scale user participation and feedback has allowed Microsoft to organize Bing seek for the subsequent step.

As well as, it was revealed that the function of Bing was also strengthened.

To begin with, by integrating the image creator function, the reply was strengthened in visual form comparable to tables and graphs, going beyond text-only answers, and it was explained that a ‘multi-modal’ function including images and videos was being added.

As well as, chat history is saved, and former chat contents are constantly reflected to support personalized search. As well as, a function to export chat contents to social media or document files comparable to Word can be added soon. Microsoft said that these two features received probably the most requests from users.

OpenAI announced that it would also add the ‘plugin’ function introduced in GPT-4. With the introduction of the plug-in, users could make reservations for restaurants or hotel services and shop online without leaving the search page.

As well as, real-time information search comparable to weather or sports scores, in addition to services for mathematics and science problems, which were previously weak, may be provided by specialized firms. He added that he would disclose detailed details about specific plug-in services or partners in May.

Lastly, Microsoft announced that it’s working to unravel false information and data security issues, and can proceed to update Bing search by constantly accepting user feedback, similar to within the preview phase.

Then again, Gizmodo, an expert media outlet, quoted an authority and identified that “the issue is simply increasing by increasing user accessibility without solving the error.”

As well as, it was analyzed that it was a primary move consistent with Google’s ‘I/O 2023 Developer Conference’ starting on the tenth. It is understood that Google is preparing to announce about 20 recent AI products, including ‘Magi’, a search engine that mixes chatbots, at this conference.

Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com