Microsoft has announced that preview builds of the new Bing search engine and Edge web browser will be coming to mobile, complete with AI-powered chat.
Since the company introduced Bing and the all-new AI-powered Microsoft Edge two weeks ago, it has welcomed more than 1 million people from 169 countries into the preview.
Users provided positive feedback about the new capabilities, with 71% of testers giving the new Bing a ‘like’.
With the introduction of the new Bing mobile app, users can ask simple or complex questions and receive answers and citations.
Users can also choose how they want their answers to be displayed – bullet points, text, or simple responses.
Here’s more about the new features for Bing, Edge, and Skype.
The new Bing – now on mobile
Bing mobile app updates are now available on iOS and Android.
It has a new and improved look and offers a chat feature that allows you to ask simple or complex questions and get answers and citations.
You can choose how you want answers to appear and explore the chat experience to improve search.
The new Bing mobile app also includes a voice search feature that allows you to naturally ask questions and get answers.
If you can access the preview, you can use the new Bing experience on the homepage of the Microsoft Edge mobile app.
Bing, powered by artificial intelligence, comes to Skype
Screenshot: blogs.microsoft.com, Feb 2023.Microsoft introduced Bing powered by artificial intelligence for Skype, enabling useful new scenarios and capabilities.
Users can add Bing to a group, as they would with any Skype contact, and ask Bing to answer questions and provide information to the entire group.
For example, users can ask Bing to provide suggestions about travel destinations, weather forecasts, and interesting events around the time of travel. Everyone in the chat will have access to the results.
Bing can tailor users’ preferences by displaying answers in bullet points, text, or a simple response.
Microsoft may offer this capability to other communications apps, such as Teams, in the future.
source: Microsoft
Featured image: CryptoFX/Shutterstock
