Microsoft May Soon Offer Bing Chat On Chrome And Safari Browsers
Bing’s AI chatbot is currently being tested on Google Chrome and Safari by Microsoft.
“We are blocking access to Bing Chat in Safari and Chrome to allow select users as part of testing in other browsers,” Caitlin Roulston, director of communications at Microsoft, said in a statement to The Verge. “We are excited to expand access to even more users once our normal testing procedures are complete.”
It appears that there are some limitations to using Bing Chat in Chrome and Safari. For example, users can only type 2,000-word prompts, compared to the 4,000-word limit the company offers when using Bing Chat in Edge.
The chatbot’s communication with users also restarts after five rounds instead of 30. Microsoft has also introduced a dark option for Bing Chat in addition to its wider rollout in other browsers.
Users can access dark mode by selecting the hamburger menu in the upper right corner of Bing Chat and then selecting Appearance > Dark or System Default. The chatbot was previously only accessible through Edge, which was very inconvenient if users wanted to use the tool in other browsers, according to the report.
Last week, the tech giant announced the introduction of multimodal capabilities through visual search in Bing Chat. The Visual Search feature leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and allows users to upload images and search the web for similar content.
Meanwhile, last month the company had launched a “voice chat” feature for Bing Chat on desktop that allows users to chat with an AI chatbot by clicking the microphone icon on the Bing Chat screen. The voice chat feature currently supports five languages – English, Japanese, French, German and Mandarin – with more languages coming soon.
