Today, we’re launching an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, available in preview now at Bing.com, to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web.
[…]
There are 10 billion search queries a day, but we estimate half of them go unanswered. That’s because people are using search to do things it wasn’t originally designed to do. It’s great for finding a website, but for more complex questions or tasks too often it falls short.
[…]
We’re excited to announce the new Bing is running on a new, next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT and customized specifically for search. It takes key learnings and advancements from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5 – and it is even faster, more accurate and more capable.
The most striking aspect of this whole generative AI saga is that it has put Google in the position of playing catch-up. Even if their products end up being superior to Microsoft’s — which is a distinct possibility — the narrative will be that Bard is a response to ChatGPT and their chat-based search features are a copy of “the new Bing.” You can’t rest on your laurels forever, I guess.