Microsoft’s Bing Chat Now Accessible on Chrome and Safari Mobile Browsers
Microsoft made a clear announcement about its intentions to incorporate AI capabilities into all its current products. On Monday, the company revealed that its Bing Chat AI chatbot, which was already accessible on the Edge mobile browser, as well as standalone Android and iOS apps, can now be accessed through third-party browsers such as Safari and Chrome.
The news comes as part of Microsoft’s six-month anniversary of the public availability of Bing Chat. The company also points out that during that time, users have had more than a billion conversations with the AI and have had it produce three-quarters of a billion images.
“This next step in the journey allows Bing to introduce the incredible value of summary answers, image creation and more to a wider audience,” the company said in a statement. However, features like “longer conversations [and] chat history” are exclusive to the Edge mobile service.
Microsoft began providing access to Bing Chat in late July when it became available in third-party desktop browsers. This version is also limited, offering only 2,000 words at the prompt in Chrome and Safari, compared to 4,000 words in Edge.
Bing Chat is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, but provides more up-to-date information than its built-in system, thanks to Bing Chat’s access to Bing Search, which allows it to obtain information about events that have occurred since the model was created. performing. In addition to a third-party browser, the latest version of Bing Chat also offers multimodal search, meaning users can upload an image and have the AI answer specific questions about its content, as well as dark mode afterwards. -hours AI surveys.
