Microsoft, 1 million subscribers to try the search with AI

Over 1 million people have signed up to test Microsoft's "new" search engine, Bing, with artificial intelligence capabilities.

The Redmond giant had unveiled the project following a heavy investment in OpenAI, the organization that develops the ChatGpt chatbot that launched the race for "conversational" artificial intelligence.

The number of users registered for the AI-based Bing trial was made official by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, who shared in a tweet that the number of registrations for the trial phase had been reached.

The goal was passed in less than 48 hours.

But Microsoft's work in artificial intelligence doesn't stop at web search.

According to The Verge website, the company will also integrate ChatGpt into popular applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

The tech giant is expected to show by March what its Prometheus AI technology and OpenAI's speech artificial intelligence can do for Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 apps. The company has already talked about the next version of Edge, search engine that has supplanted Internet Explorer, with an integrated algorithm that, according to the developer, will allow greater speed and tools to obtain more relevant information from the pages visited.

Just in the last few hours, a competitor of Edge, Opera, has anticipated a new version of the browser of the same name with a bar dedicated to ChatGpt.

For The Verge, Microsoft will bring AI technology to autonomously generate charts and tables, to be used in PowerPoint or Excel, starting from little information.