Although Bing has received less headlines in recent weeks than in previous months, this does not mean that Microsoft has stopped working on it. AI-based features of its revamped search engine. Let’s recall, for example, that just a few weeks ago, the desktop version of Bing began to integrate voice functions, both for listening to user queries and for answering them. And it’s because both activities (voice-to-text and text-to-speech) are areas in which artificial intelligence has recently made great strides.

As you may remember, when OpenAI introduced GPT-4, the folks at Redmond communicated almost immediately, that Bing has already started using the latest version of the model. However, we must remember that since the introduction of the new Bing, we have already been told that it is based on a customized version called Prometheus, that is, that Bing may have features that we do not find in GPT-4, and of course also vice versa, that not all features and not all potential GPT-4 are available from Bing.

Now, although there are clearly benefits to GPT-4 that OpenAI and Microsoft (as the company’s major shareholder) are reserving for the paying customers of the model, the Redmond customers. They are also very interested in continuing to add interesting features to their search engine.capitalizing on the interest it has generated in recent months, which they no doubt intend to use to close the still gaping gap that separates them from Google in the search engine market.

So in this sense we find a new progress, that according to what we can read in WindowsLatest, Microsoft is already testing Bing image recognition in Windows 11. Let us recall that this function, which directly competes with Google Lens, is already available in the Bing applications for smartphones, but that the increase that its use can see when moving to the desktop application can be more than considerable, the greater, We take into account , that Lens on PC is only accessible from the browser, that is, it does not have a native application.

At this point, Microsoft seems to have opted for a very measured deployment because there are still few users who have access to it currently (The publication says about 10%). The publication does not specify, yes, if we are talking about users who are part of one of the company’s Insider programs, which leads us to believe that this is not the case and that it is therefore already being made available to users. and that therefore we should not wait too long before its reach is much wider.