This is a linkpost for https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/
TL;DR: Microsoft and OpenAI announced a new version of Bing featuring "a new, next-generation OpenAI large language model [..] more powerful than ChatGPT", and that Microsoft Edge will feature a Copilot-like assistant that helps with composing and summarizing content.
Brief thoughts/comments/notes:
- Microsoft's attitude during their press meeting seemed pretty aggressive and targeted directly at racing with Google. This seems kind of bad. For example, a quote from Nadella:
- "The race starts today, and we’re going to move and move fast. Most importantly, we want to have a lot of fun innovating again in search, because it’s high time."
- Microsoft built a scaffold for the new LM called "Prometheus", that lets them "best leverage its power".
- Microsoft has also used the new LM in their Bing search engine, though it's not clear exactly how.
- This seems way more hype than Google's Bard announcement.
- You can register for the new Bing beta on the Bing.com site.
Google’s event where they’re presumably unveiling their response will happen Feb 8th at 2:30 PM CET/5:30 AM PT: