To enable people to rediscover the delight of discovery, experience the wonder of creation, and better harness the world’s knowledge, we are reimagining the tools that billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser, today.
Today, we’re unveiling an all-new, AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, which are currently available in beta at Bing.com, to provide better search, more thorough answers, a new chat experience, and the opportunity to develop content. We consider these tools to be AI copilots for the web.
“AI will profoundly transform every software industry, beginning with the largest of all – search,” stated Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. “Today, we’re debuting Bing and Edge with AI copilot and chat to help users get more out of search and the web.”
Every day, there are 10 billion search requests, yet we estimate that half of them get unanswered. This is because individuals are utilizing search for purposes it was not intended for. It’s wonderful for finding a webpage, but it frequently falls short of more difficult questions or tasks.
The new Bing and Edge – Your web copilot
We’ve combined search, browsing, and chat into a single unified experience that you can use from anywhere on the web, delivering:
- Improve your search. The new Bing offers an enhanced version of the classic search experience, with more relevant results for simple items like sports scores, market prices, and weather, as well as a new sidebar that displays more extensive answers if you want them.
- Complete your responses. Bing searches the web for results and summarizes them to find and summarize the solution you’re looking for. For example, instead of browsing through many results, you can obtain comprehensive instructions on how to substitute eggs for another ingredient in a cake you’re preparing right now.
- A fresh way to chat. The new Bing includes new, interactive conversation for more sophisticated searches, such as organizing a comprehensive trip itinerary or choosing which TV to buy. You can narrow your search until you receive the complete answer you’re looking for by asking for additional details, clarity, and ideas – with links available so you can act on your decisions right now.
- A spark of creativity. There are moments when you require more than just an explanation; you require inspiration. The new Bing may create material to assist you. It may assist you in writing an email, creating a 5-day schedule for a dream vacation to Hawaii, complete with links to book your travel and accommodations, preparing for a job interview, or creating a trivia night quiz. The new Bing additionally cites all of its sources, allowing you to view connections to the web items it mentions.
- Microsoft Edge has been updated. We’ve updated the Edge browser with additional AI capabilities, a fresh appearance, and two new features: chat and composition. You can use the Edge Sidebar to request a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the essential takeaways, and then use the chat function to request a comparison to a competitive company’s financials, which will be instantly presented in a table. You may also ask Edge to assist you with creating content, such as a LinkedIn post, by providing it with a few prompts. Following that, you can ask it to assist you with updating the tone, format, and length of the post. Edge recognizes the web page you’re on and adjusts accordingly.
AI is reimagining search
The new Bing experience is the result of four technological breakthroughs:
- OpenAI model of the future. We’re pleased to reveal that the new Bing is powered by a new, next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT and has been tailored exclusively for search. It incorporates major insights and breakthroughs from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5, and it is faster, more accurate, and more capable.
- Prometheus is a Microsoft model. We have created a proprietary method of interacting with the OpenAI model that allows us to maximize its capabilities. This set of abilities and procedures is known as the Prometheus model. This combination provides more relevant, fast, and targeted results while also improving safety.
- AI is being applied to the basic search algorithm. We’ve also applied the AI model to our core Bing search engine, resulting in the highest increase in relevance in two decades. Even basic search queries are more accurate and relevant with our AI model.
- New user interface. We’re reinventing how you engage with search, browser, and chat by bringing them all together in one place. This will enable an entirely new manner of interacting with the internet.
These ground-breaking new search experiences are made possible by Microsoft’s commitment to transforming Azure into the world’s AI supercomputer, and OpenAI has leveraged this infrastructure to train the breakthrough models that are now being optimized for Bing.
AI is reimagining search
The new Bing experience is the result of four technological breakthroughs:
- OpenAI model of the future. We’re pleased to reveal that the new Bing is powered by a new, next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT and has been tailored exclusively for search. It incorporates major insights and breakthroughs from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5, and it is faster, more accurate, and more capable.
- Prometheus is a Microsoft model. We have created a proprietary method of interacting with the OpenAI model that allows us to maximize its capabilities. This set of abilities and procedures is known as the Prometheus model. This combination provides more relevant, fast, and targeted results while also improving safety.
- AI is being applied to the basic search algorithm. We’ve also applied the AI model to our core Bing search engine, resulting in the highest increase in relevance in two decades. Even basic search queries are more accurate and relevant with our AI model.
- New user interface. We’re reinventing how you engage with search, browser, and chat by bringing them all together in one place. This will enable an entirely new manner of interacting with the internet.
These ground-breaking new search experiences are made possible by Microsoft’s commitment to transforming Azure into the world’s AI supercomputer, and OpenAI has leveraged this infrastructure to train the breakthrough models that are now being optimized for Bing.
