A little more than 100 days ago, Microsoft introduced the world to your copilot for the Web with a new AI-powered Bing and Edge, beginning the transformation of the largest software category in the world—search. We’ve seen great progress in that short time, with people now doing things they couldn’t do with traditional search engines to be more productive and creative. Bing users have engaged in more than half a billion chats, created more than 200 million images with Bing Image Creator, while daily downloads of the Bing mobile app have increased 8x since launch.
Today, at the Microsoft Build conference, we’re taking the next steps to further expand how people can interact with search and how developers can build on our AI platform. I’m pleased to share three key updates for Bing: The integration of Bing Search into ChatGPT, a common plugin platform with OpenAI and new plugin partners, and the expanded integration of Bing Chat across Microsoft’s copilots. Today’s updates create greater opportunities for developers and more magical experiences for people as we continue the transformation of search.
Foundational to our progress with the new Bing is our fantastic partnership with OpenAI. I’m pleased to announce we are bringing Bing to ChatGPT as the default search experience.
ChatGPT will now have a world-class search engine built-in to provide timelier and more up-to-date answers with access from the web. Now, ChatGPT answers can be grounded by search and web data and include citations so you can learn more—all directly from within chat. The new experience is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers starting today and will be available to free users soon by simply enabling a plugin which brings Bing to ChatGPT.
Instacart plugin in Bing Chat
Additionally, Bandsintown, Bohita, Cloudflare, Coupert, Fareportal, FiscalNote, Golden, Lexi Shopper, Likewise, Noteable, One Word Domains, PromptPerfect, Shopify, Skyscanner, Spotify, Spotnana, and Trip.com are enabling plugins for Bing Chat.
All these experiences will be delivered within Bing chat or the Edge sidebar across desktop and mobile in the coming weeks.
With today’s announcement of Windows Copilot, we’re excited to bring the power of Bing Chat in a more robust way to Windows 11. Windows Copilot, together with Bing Chat (including the shared plugin platform with Bing and OpenAI), enables those plugins to be enhanced through applications on Windows. This makes it easier than ever to get personalized answers, relevant suggestions, and take quick actions. Windows Copilot will be persistent next to any of your apps and will support the same plugins to enhance your chat experience. To learn more, visit the Windows Blog.
In addition to Windows, we’re excited to share that our common plugin platform will also be natively integrated into Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge continues to be your copilot for the web—the first browser to integrate AI-powered search. To learn more, visit the Edge blog.
These past 100 days have been critical in the development of the new era of AI-powered search. As we see people engage with Bing and Edge in profoundly new ways, it’s clear the transformation of search is well underway. We’re excited to continue to expand what’s possible with today’s announcements. If you haven’t tried the new Bing yet, visit bing.com and download the mobile app on your phone to get started.