Anyone who wants a little more “Bing” in their work environment can soon get started with Bing Chat Enterprise. This is a business version of the AI-powered search engine that Microsoft previously proposed.

Microsoft showcases Bing Chat Enterprise at its Inspire event. It’s a variant of Bing Chat: the AI-powered search engine the company introduced to the world earlier this year. Bing Chat is intended to be an alternative to a classic search engine. If you ask the chatbot a question, you’ll get an instant substantive answer instead of links to websites that contain the answer. Essentially, Microsoft combines the technology behind ChatGPT with Bing’s search results, resulting in a chatbot that is smarter and has access to more relevant information than ChatGPT.

The data stays safe

Bing Chat Enterprise does not differ functionally from the publicly available variant, but handles your data more carefully. When you ask Bing Chat Enterprise a question, both that question and the answer remain private. If you ask the regular version of Bing Chat (or ChatGPT) to write marketing materials about a product that has not yet been launched, the confidential information about that product leaves the company’s secure environment. Not so with Bing Chat Enterprise, which is capable of keeping secrets.

“No one at Microsoft can see your data, and your data is not used to train the models,” Microsoft emphasizes. According to Microsoft, if you are signed in to your browser with your work account and surf to Bing Chat, you will automatically land at Bing Chat Enterprise. Microsoft will start the preview immediately. Unlike the Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise is free for anyone with a Microsoft 365 Business subscription.