New York, May 4 (EFE).- Microsoft opened this Thursday to everyone its free artificial intelligence tool, Bing, capable of generating texts and images, which it launched three months ago and which until now could only be accessed by invitation or by waiting list.
“We’ve come a long way since Bing and Edge launched 90 days ago. And we think that now is an important time to get more comments and reactions” from users, Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi explained to EFE today.
“We can improve the product, and we can make it available and help people more broadly,” he explained. “That’s why we’re moving from limited preview to open preview,” he explained.
Bing, which can only be accessed by the Microsoft Edge browser, combines GPT-4 and DALL-E 2 technology from Open AI (creators of ChatGPT and DALL-E) with Microsoft’s search results index, “something that you can’t get anywhere else but Bing,” according to the company.
Unlike its first prototype, announced in February and to which only a select few had access, “the new Bing” that the company launched today is not only capable of answering users’ questions with text, but also with photos, images and graphics.
As well as you can translate users text into images. In the latter case, Bing can respond to a request like “Create an image of a dog eating ice cream” with four different proposals in a matter of seconds.
This feature will be usable in over a hundred languages and all images that are generated have a Bing watermark at the bottom.
Another of the changes is that Bing can now answer 20 questions in the same “conversation” -Microsoft had cut the answers to six, as some users received disturbing answers in longer chats-; In addition, in this new version, users will be able to access the history of their conversations and share the responses they have obtained.
In the first 90 days of the public life of this tool, Bing participated in more than 500 million chats and Bing Image Creator generated more than 200 million images.
“In total, Bing has grown to exceed 100 million daily active users and daily installs of the Bing mobile app have quadrupled since its launch,” the company notes in a statement.
Microsoft told Efe that chat in Microsoft Edge will soon also have the ability to summarize long documents, including PDFs and websites, as well as offer various plug-ins.
