Microsoft today announced that the new AI-powered Bing search engine is now in open preview and no longer has a waitlist. Alongside that, the company announced some new features to Bing Chat and expanded the capabilities of Image Creator. An improved Bing Chat experience Bing is turning more visual with the introduction of richer, more elaborate answers that’ll now include charts, graphs, and updated formatting. This, Microsoft says, will help you find the information you seek more easily. Conversations on Bing Chat will soon be accessible through a chat history, which users will also be able to share and export. Users will also be able to return to previous chats in Bing Chat with this feature. Lastly, much like the plugins that ChatGPT Plus subscribers enjoy, Microsoft is also letting developers build third-party plugins for the Bing Chat experience. As an example, the company says that if you’re researching the latest restaurant for dinner in Bing Chat, it will leverage OpenTable to help you find and book a reservation. A more versatile Bing on Edge browser Microsoft is introducing Edge actions: “If you want to watch a particular movie, actions in Edge will find and show you options in chat in the sidebar and then play the movie you want from where it’s available.” Meanwhile, Chat in Microsoft Edge will have improved summarisation capabilities for long documents like lengthy PDFs and longer-form websites. New features on Image Creator Image Creator is being expanded to over 100 languages in Bing, allowing you to create images in your native language. Microsoft also revealed it’s working on a feature that will let users upload images and search the web for related content on Bing.
