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MICROSOFT announced in a blog that Bing is now live in Open Preview, and the waitlist stands eliminated. To try out the new Bing, users can sign in with a Microsoft account and start chatting with the AI model instantly. Meanwhile, we reported in March that Microsoft is silently killing the waitlist. During that time, we successfully gained access to Bing chat right away after signing in.

Besides the waitlist departure, the company announced new features across its AI and traditional products. Bing Chat would now present visually-rich answers and include graphs, charts and more elements. Further, Bing Image Creator would now support over 100 languages to entice more users to the AI creation tool.

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Microsoft Edge will undergo a design update. Enhancements in the UI include round corners, "semi-transparent visual elements," and more. Moreover, visual search in chat would be incorporated, which will accept images to return query results.

Users will soon be able to return to the session where they left and access previous chats. Thanks to chat history. A user would also be able to share and export chat soon. To add more, Chat in Microsoft Edge will have better summarisation capabilities. It would react better to long articles, PDFs and detailed websites and prepare thin copies.

Microsoft further said in the blog that it would soon bring third-party plug-ins support for Bing chat. While implementing all these changes, Microsoft and OpenAI will continue to bolster safeguards against harmful content.

Meanwhile, AI-powered Bing debuted three months back. It aimed to bring improved search results and answer queries in a conversational form. Since it debuted, users have engaged Bing's AI features with 0.5 billion chats. The platform continues to serve more than 100 million users daily. Bing app's downloads have skyrocketed four times since its launch.

Moreover, another famous AI tool of Microsoft, Bing Image Creator, has generated over 200 million images. The AI-powered Bing operates on GPT-4 tech of OpenAI. These AI innovations can be attributed to Microsoft's heavy cash infusion into ChatGPT maker OpenAI.