Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Modern Life, Search, and Devices speaks during an event introducing a recent AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington on February 7, 2023.
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the preview release of its recent Bing and Edge apps for iPhone and Android, which include recent features like voice search and access to its AI chatbot.
Within the Bing mobile app, users can tap the Bing icon to begin a chat session, where they’ll ask quite a lot of questions via text or with their voices, in line with a release. Answers could be displayed in bullet points, in simplified responses or in a standard text format. Users may also have the opportunity to access updates for Bing through the homepage of the Edge mobile app, Microsoft said.
Microsoft also announced AI-powered Bing for Skype on Wednesday. Users can add Microsoft’s AI to group chats and ask it questions. The chatbot will provide answers for the entire group. People can ask Bing for suggestions on travel, or ask in regards to the weather or about recent award shows, for instance. Just like the Bing mobile app, answers could be displayed in bullet points, simplified responses or text format.
Bing in Skype is on the market in a worldwide preview.
On Feb. 7, Microsoft held an event at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and it announced AI-powered updates to the corporate’s Bing search engine and Edge browser. The updates were initially released on desktop in a limited preview, meaning users get a finite variety of queries to go looking in the course of the initial period.
CEO Satya Nadella said that search powered by artificial intelligence is the most important thing to occur to his company within the nine years he’s been on the helm.
“I actually have not seen something like this since I’d say 2007-2008, when the cloud was just first coming out,” Nadella told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in an interview following Microsoft’s event.