Wednesday, 26 July 2023, Bengaluru, India
Following several reports that the AI chatbot was discovered on browsers other than Microsoft’s, such as Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari, the company today revealed that Bing Chat is extending to non-Microsoft browsers. The extension will allow Microsoft’s ChatGPT-like AI chatbot, which was previously only accessible to users through Microsoft products like the Microsoft Edge browser and the Bing mobile app, to reach a wider audience of consumers.
Bing Chat is being made available on other browsers, as of yet unannounced, the company told TechCrunch. Caitlin Roulston, director of communications for Microsoft, wrote in an email, “We are fighting access to Bing Chat in Safari and Chrome to select users as part of our testing on other browsers.” Once our routine testing procedures are through, we’re eager to give more consumers access.
Those who could use the Bing AI chatbot on Windows claim to have seen a pop-up urging them to try the Bing AI in Chrome in the Windows 10 or 11 taskbar. In any case, people can access Bing.com from their chosen browser and test the experience by clicking the “Chat” icon. However, our experiments discovered that Chrome could access Bing Chat but not Safari. We might not be among the “select users” receiving access during the tests, which could account for this.
The GPT-4 model from OpenAI powers the ChatGPT-like experience in Bing Chat, but some users claim that trying the AI chatbot in other browsers has more restrictions than the original version. The blog WindowsLatest.com, which was the first to notice the enlargement, pointed out, for instance, that Bing Chat in Chrome only supports five messages per chat, as opposed to the 30 offered in Microsoft Edge. The site stated that it was limiting the character count to 2,000 instead of the 3,000 supported by Edge.
When we requested more information, Microsoft declined to validate these specifics or provide additional details regarding the variations between the various Bing Chat versions. Additionally, the corporation refused to say which platforms were supported, when the addition of support for additional browsers first started, or whether individuals from different markets would be included in the tests. That will be something we learn in the coming days.
After launching earlier this year, Bing Chat has gradually entered other Microsoft products. The new Bing was integrated with Skype and became available on the Edge browser for iOS, Android, PC, and the Bing mobile app in weeks. Microsoft announced last month that Bing Chat would also join the enterprise with a version of Bing Chat that incorporated governance and data privacy safeguards geared toward businesses. Microsoft also mentioned the rollout of Visual Search, which enables the chatbot to answer inquiries about uploaded photographs along with that statements.
[Source of Information: Techcrunch.com]
