It’s been about a week since Microsoft unveiled its new Bing and Microsoft Edge last Tuesday, which will integrate features with OpenAI technology, marks a turning point both from the point of view of information seekers on the Internet and in web browsers. A very intelligent move with which those from Redmond have been able to come to the fore in both markets in terms of innovation. We can bet, and we won’t be wrong, that we are witnessing the first steps of the future generation of browsers and search engines in which AI will play a relevant role, and Microsoft has managed to be the first.

It’s true that although we had news about it weeks ago, and that the images with the design of the new Bing s chatbot Google was a day ahead, announcing Bard on Monday last week, 24 hours before Microsoft’s event. Those from Redmond, however, counterattacked by announcing that they will soon start offering access to the new Bingwhile Google opted for a more cautious policy with a small selection of “trusted” users to start testing a limited version of its AI.

Over the past week we’ve also seen Quora fully open access to Poe, its chatbot of chatbots, Baidu announced ERNIE, and at the end of the week we learned that Opera has already provided an answer to “together with artificial intelligence”. -pilot”, which will include the new Microsoft Edge. Without a doubt, if the history of artificial intelligence is studied one day, the week of February 6-12, 2023 will undoubtedly be considered one of the most important moments.

Now the announcements and presentations are very interesting, but what the vast majority of users are really waiting for is the opportunity to test all these new things for themselves. To this end, in the case of those from Redmond, the company set up a waiting list last week, in which you can sign up at this link and, as we could read today in various media and social networks, Microsoft has already started granting access to the new OpenAI-based Bing to some users.

At least at this point, there doesn’t seem to be a clear pattern to identify whether Microsoft uses any specific criteria to select early testers (besides of course following its recommendations to get faster access), or yes, rather it’s simply based on at your position on the waiting list. What we can expect based on the company’s own statements during its presentation is that many new users will be added in the coming weeks.