Microsoft's Bing Chat AI starts rolling out to all users

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After the Bing Chat AI sidebar showed up, it looks like Microsoft is ready to offer its ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat AI to anyone who wants to use it. It's still listed as "join the waiting list" on the signup page, but when you sign up, it looks like you get instant access. I got access to the feature a few weeks back. 

Microsoft hasn't confirmed this change, but it is holding an event today on "Reinventing productivity with AI." The focus might be more on its tools for the Microsoft 365 suite, but there might be new changes to Bing. Microsoft confirmed recently that the new Bing runs on the GPT-4 engine for the last few weeks, well before OpenAI unveiled it. 

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Microsoft Edge gets a new Bing AI chatbot sidebar

Microsoft's Bing AI-powered chatbot is now more accessible inside the Edge browser. It was initially only available in the dev versions of Edge, but it's now rolling out on the stable versions of the browser on Windows and macOS. I've already spotted it on my browser. It shows up as a Bing button on the top right corner of the browser. 

When you hover or click on the button, it'll bring up the Bing chatbot experience. You can then use the chat function from there. You can ask it questions or help you with tasks like generating text for emails, letters, blog posts, and more. But in this sidebar configuration, you can ask it to summarize what you're reading on the page, do comparisons, and more.

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