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| 2023 || March 16 || || Microsoft's Chief Communications Officer, Frank X. Shaw, provides some starter prompts for communicators to use the new AI-powered Bing. Shaw highlights that Bing is in preview at the time and can assist in media interview prep, media coverage snapshots, social media post inspiration, and headline generation. Bing is capable of generating 10 interview questions in the voice of a specific person, provide quick snapshots of media coverage, brainstorming ideas for social media posts, and creating engaging headlines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing |url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/prompts-for-communicators-using-the-new-ai-powered-bing/ |website=The Official Microsoft Blog |access-date=9 May 2023 |date=16 March 2023}}</ref> | | 2023 || March 16 || || Microsoft's Chief Communications Officer, Frank X. Shaw, provides some starter prompts for communicators to use the new AI-powered Bing. Shaw highlights that Bing is in preview at the time and can assist in media interview prep, media coverage snapshots, social media post inspiration, and headline generation. Bing is capable of generating 10 interview questions in the voice of a specific person, provide quick snapshots of media coverage, brainstorming ideas for social media posts, and creating engaging headlines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing |url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/prompts-for-communicators-using-the-new-ai-powered-bing/ |website=The Official Microsoft Blog |access-date=9 May 2023 |date=16 March 2023}}</ref> | ||
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| + | | 2023 || April 1 || || Microsoft makes several improvements to Bing Chat, including adding image and video search, increasing the maximum number of chat turns per session to 20 and per day to 200, and enhancing local search results. Users can now find locations and businesses near them more easily. Microsoft also addresses issues and gaps in Bing Chat within the Edge Sidebar, such as bringing context enhancements to summarize larger pages and documents, supporting Bing Image Creator in Creative mode, and improving the loading speed of the sidebar.<ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft just fixed local searches in Bing Chat |url=https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/bing/microsoft-just-fixed-local-searches-in-bing-chat |website=windowscentral.com |access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref> | ||
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| 2023 || April 6 || || Microsoft introduces AI functionality to the beta version of the [[w:Microsoft SwiftKey|SwiftKey]] keyboard for Android through Bing Chat AI integration. Users can now access Bing Chat to generate text, engage in conversation, and use Microsoft's search engine directly from the keyboard. Additionally, the latest SwiftKey beta allows users to have sections of text rewritten by AI with different tones. The availability of these features for iOS users is not specified yet. The beta version of Microsoft SwiftKey can be downloaded from {{w|Google Play}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft adds Bing Chat AI to SwiftKey Beta for Android |url=https://betanews.com/2023/04/08/microsoft-adds-bing-chat-ai-to-swiftkey-beta-for-android/ |website=BetaNews |access-date=12 May 2023 |language=en |date=8 April 2023}}</ref> | | 2023 || April 6 || || Microsoft introduces AI functionality to the beta version of the [[w:Microsoft SwiftKey|SwiftKey]] keyboard for Android through Bing Chat AI integration. Users can now access Bing Chat to generate text, engage in conversation, and use Microsoft's search engine directly from the keyboard. Additionally, the latest SwiftKey beta allows users to have sections of text rewritten by AI with different tones. The availability of these features for iOS users is not specified yet. The beta version of Microsoft SwiftKey can be downloaded from {{w|Google Play}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft adds Bing Chat AI to SwiftKey Beta for Android |url=https://betanews.com/2023/04/08/microsoft-adds-bing-chat-ai-to-swiftkey-beta-for-android/ |website=BetaNews |access-date=12 May 2023 |language=en |date=8 April 2023}}</ref> | ||
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This is a timeline of Bing Chat, a chatbot developed by Microsoft, which uses a large language model to generate responses to user input.
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| 2023 | January 23 | Microsoft and OpenAI have announced the third phase of their partnership through a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs and ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world. Microsoft will increase its investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s independent AI research. Additionally, Microsoft will deploy OpenAI’s models across its consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology. As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, Azure will power all OpenAI workloads across research, products, and API services.[1] | |
| 2023 | February 7 | Microsoft initiates the release of a significant revamp to Microsoft Bing, which involves introducing a novel chatbot functionality powered by OpenAI's GPT-4.[2] | |
| 2023 | March 16 | Microsoft's Chief Communications Officer, Frank X. Shaw, provides some starter prompts for communicators to use the new AI-powered Bing. Shaw highlights that Bing is in preview at the time and can assist in media interview prep, media coverage snapshots, social media post inspiration, and headline generation. Bing is capable of generating 10 interview questions in the voice of a specific person, provide quick snapshots of media coverage, brainstorming ideas for social media posts, and creating engaging headlines.[3] | |
| 2023 | April 1 | Microsoft makes several improvements to Bing Chat, including adding image and video search, increasing the maximum number of chat turns per session to 20 and per day to 200, and enhancing local search results. Users can now find locations and businesses near them more easily. Microsoft also addresses issues and gaps in Bing Chat within the Edge Sidebar, such as bringing context enhancements to summarize larger pages and documents, supporting Bing Image Creator in Creative mode, and improving the loading speed of the sidebar.[4] | |
| 2023 | April 6 | Microsoft introduces AI functionality to the beta version of the SwiftKey keyboard for Android through Bing Chat AI integration. Users can now access Bing Chat to generate text, engage in conversation, and use Microsoft's search engine directly from the keyboard. Additionally, the latest SwiftKey beta allows users to have sections of text rewritten by AI with different tones. The availability of these features for iOS users is not specified yet. The beta version of Microsoft SwiftKey can be downloaded from Google Play.[5] | |
| 2023 | May 4 | Microsoft makes Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone without the need for a waitlist. Users can access the preview version by signing in to Bing or Edge with their Microsoft account. The new version is powered by GPT-4 and includes smart features such as image and video results, persistent chat and history, and plug-in support. By this time, Microsoft is also reportedly working with OpenTable and WolframAlpha to enable their plug-ins for restaurant bookings and generating visualizations, respectively.[6] | |
| 2023 | May 6 | Competition | An article compares ChatGPT to Bing Chat, announcing a list of new features that are comparable to what ChatGPT offers to its paid subscribers. The author concludes that ChatGPT Plus is not worth the money and OpenAI needs to rethink its approach to charging for ChatGPT.[7] |
| 2023 | May 7 | Bing Chat reportedly experiences rapid growth, surpassing the capacity of its servers to handle the increasing demand. As a result, some users encounter slow and laggy experiences. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing Search, acknowledges the issue on Twitter, apologizing for the latency and explaining that the company is struggling to add GPUs quickly enough to keep up with usage growth. At this time, the resource-intensive nature of AI solutions poses unique challenges that go beyond traditional web applications, even for a company like Microsoft with vast web management and cloud hosting capabilities.[8] | |
| 2023 | May 10 | Competition | An article compares Open-source HuggingChat with Bing Chat and ChatGPT. It concludes that, at the time, HuggingChat falls short compared to ChatGPT and Bing Chat, with typos, limited data, and misunderstandings. HuggingChat's transparency remains its main advantage. ChatGPT is versatile but lacks real-time information, while Bing Chat is connected to the internet but has stricter restrictions.[9] |
| 2023 | May 11 | Microsoft introduces new features and enhancements to Bing Chat. The updates include the ability to save chats and resume them later, chat customization based on previous conversations, sharing chats on social platforms, improvements to the Image Builder tool, more visual answers with charts and tables, summarization of long content such as articles and web pages, and the integration of Edge actions to complete tasks.[10] |
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- ↑ "Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership". The Official Microsoft Blog. 23 January 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ Peters, Jay (15 March 2023). "The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4". The Verge. Archived from the original on March 17, 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ↑ "Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing". The Official Microsoft Blog. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "Microsoft just fixed local searches in Bing Chat". windowscentral.com. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ "Microsoft adds Bing Chat AI to SwiftKey Beta for Android". BetaNews. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ Warren, Tom (4 May 2023). "Microsoft's Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon". The Verge. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "Why am I wasting $20 a month on ChatGPT Plus when Bing Chat is free?". windowscentral.com. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "Microsoft: Bing Chat Growing Faster Than Servers Can Handle". seroundtable.com. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ Luansing, Jose (10 May 2023). "HuggingChat vs. Bing Chat: Which Is the Better ChatGPT Alternative?". MUO. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ "Microsoft adds support for saving chats, Edge actions, and other new features to Bing Chat - Gearrice". gearrice.com. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
