The fact that Bing and ChatGPT are cousins, so to speak, is not lost on anyone, although almost it would be more accurate to see them as half brothers, because they share one of their parents, OpenAI. So it’s normal to see that much of the functionality of one is replicated in the other (it works both ways) and that both services are fighting heartily to get maximum user interest, if it’s true that they’re doing it for different purposes.

So it’s common for those who use both services to do nothing but wonder when a certain feature from one will land on the other. However, this is more likely in some cases than in others. For example, this week we told you that Bing added the ability to create images thanks to the integration of its own DALL-E model, which seems unlikely, at least in the short term, in ChatGPT.

We have also seen that since the announcement of GPT-4 both chatbots have confirmed that they use it, but with the difference that Bing does it permanently, while ChatGPT allows only limited use to service payment accounts. So we can actually more than confirm what we’ve been saying for a while now, and that Microsoft put all the meat on the grill, yes, but also all the credit cards to fund these moves, but I just think in the infrastructure that they had to put in place to provided these new services would make any system administrator break out in a cold sweat.

As we told you a few days ago, Google took a major step by launching the public beta version of Bard among users in the United States and the United Kingdom, which undoubtedly will turn on a few warning lights in Redmond, because they know they have to be able to capitalize on the moment of glory they’re having. Whether it’s something fleeting or permanent depends on its ability to entice users to make Bing their go-to tool for finding information on the Internet, something the Bing chatbot is most practical for.

However, Microsoft’s search engine has an important limitation compared to OpenAI, which is that it does not keep conversation history. However, as said in a tweet Mikhail Parakhin, executive director of advertising and web services at Microsoft, the Bing team is working to deliver the chat history feature as soon as possiblesomething that complements and justifies the statement that it is the most requested feature by users.

ChatGPT has a history of chats (albeit sometimes failing) since its inception, and unlike Bing, it does not limit the duration of conversations. In the case of the Microsoft chatbot, the limit is currently set to 15 questions-answers, when the conversation must be restarted, a process in which everything discussed up to that point is lost. So it is more than likely that over time we will have to repeat certain queries that we could directly revise with history. The good news is that although there is still no date, we will finally see the long-awaited record soon.