Microsoft had an event yesterday in NYC showing off some new features for Bing Chat, touting some growth figures and announcing it removed the waitlist for the co-pilot feature.
I covered this in more detail on Search Engine Land but honestly, I covered many of these feature announcements on this site already, so you are all familiar with it.
New Features
Here are the updates to Bing Chat:
(1) No more waitlist; just download Edge, sign into your Microsoft account, and go right into Bing Chat.
(2) More visual answers with images, charts, graphs and more - when applicable. We saw this with local results in Bing Chat earlier. Now also for more answers:
(3) Updated formatting of answers, including math formulas:
(4) Bing Image Creator is available to over 100 languages in Bing:
(5) You can upload images and search the web for related content in Bing Chat.
(6) Bing Chat history, saving chats, persistent chats, export chats, share chats and more:
Chat History:
Persistent Chat:
Export Chat:
(7) Plugins with third-party developer support, like with ChatGPT.
And yes, the same plugins as ChatGPT:
Yes, the same plugins
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) May 5, 2023
Here is an example of OpenTable booking a reservation:
Here is an infographic from Microsoft with these updates (click to enlarge):
Growth:
Here are some of the metrics Microsoft announced in terms of growth since Bing Chat launched 90-days ago:
- Over half a billion chats
- Over 200 million images with Bing Image Creator
- Over 100 million daily active users
- 4X in daily installs of the Bing mobile app
- Overall growth of Bing share over the past eight straight quarters
Oh, that includes growth of the Edge browser, which is important.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
