It’s been a little over a week since Microsoft introduced Bing and Microsoft Edge with Prometheus, a technology development based on OpenAI’s work with ChatGPT and GPT 3. which brings artificial intelligence to the search engine and browser of those in Redmond. We’ve known they’ve been working on this for some time, although admittedly for such an important evolutionary leap, they seem to have known how to move at great speed, causing quite a reaction from the rest of the tech sector. .

At the moment, we are still waiting for news regarding the new Microsoft Edge with Prometheus artificial intelligence features, especially since last Sunday Opera decided to respond and announced that sidebar your browser will also include an AI-based assistant. And this is not a pressure on the market leader, but more and more of us are wondering what Google is waiting for to make a similar move with Google Chrome.

The situation is different with the new Bing with AI. From the day it was introduced, Microsoft opened a waiting list for all users who were interested start testing the new version of your browser. We could imagine, although in the early days the company did not provide data in this regard, that the volume of registrations was (and de facto should continue to be) extremely high, because the approach is actually very interesting.

Less than a week after launch, early adopters started getting invitations to try it out, and just 24 hours later, we finally got to try it out for ourselves and share with you the experience of the first contact. In the absence of further investigation, the first impression is quite positive and although some cases of failure or strange behavior from the party chatbotThe future of this information retrieval model is most promising.

Cheers! There have been a few questions about our waiting list to try the new Bing, so here’s a reminder of the process:

We are currently in limited preview to test, learn and improve. Every day we slowly remove people from the waiting list.

If you’re on the waiting list,… https://t.co/06PcyYE6gw pic.twitter.com/Lf3XkuZX2i

— Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi) February 15, 2023

We were waiting, yes, for Microsoft to give some information in this regard, such as the volume of registrations, the countries where the beta went, how important it is to meet the optional requirements and so on. Questions that have been answered tweet from Yusuf Mehdi, director of consumer marketing at Microsoft, who incidentally took advantage of the new long message feature on the social network. This, translated, is what we can read in the report:

«Hello everyone! There have been a few questions about our waiting list to try the new Bing, so here’s a reminder of the process:

We are currently in limited preview so we can test, learn and improve. Little by little we are moving up with people from the waiting list [es decir, concediéndoles acceso a la beta].

If you are on the waiting list, please wait. As we said at launch, we plan to scale to millions of people in the next few weeks. We were only there for a week.

We prefer those who have Bing and Edge as their default search engine and browser, as well as the Bing Mobile app installedto optimize the initial experience. Over time, we plan to introduce it to all browsers.

Demand is high, with several million people on the waiting list. So please be patient if you have just joined the waiting list.

We test with users from 169 countries and we’re seeing a lot of interest in new features like chat. We are waiting for you to try it.»

So it looks like those who join the waitlist now will have to wait longer than those who did in the first place, although Microsoft’s plans seem to be rapidly escalating, so the wait could be longer. It’s weeks, not months. So if you want to try out the new Bing, be sure to sign up, it might take less than you think to get an invite.

As for the optional requests for faster access, in my case I have to say that I have installed the Bing iOS app and I use Bing and Edge regularly, almost daily, but they are not my default option, which invites I think in Redmond decided cPay special attention to installing (and of course using) the app for Android and iOS, so my recommendation is to install it and while you’re at it, take the opportunity to try it out. Of course, keep in mind that even though you’ve gained access to the new Bing, at least for now, the smartphone app doesn’t offer access to the chatbot.