Microsoft announced the preview release of its new Bing and Edge apps for iPhone and Android on Wednesday.
AI Chatbot To Bing App On iPhone And Android
These apps include new features like voice search and access to its AI chatbot.
To access this, users can tap the Bing icon to start a chat session, in the Bing mobile app.
There, users can ask a variety of questions via text or with their voices, as per the release.
The answers it provides can be displayed in bullet points, in simplified responses or in a traditional text format.
According to Microsoft, the users will also be able to access updates for Bing through the homepage of the Edge mobile app.
In addition to this, Microsoft also announced AI-powered Bing for Skype on Wednesday.
With this development, users can add Microsoft’s AI to group chats and ask it questions.
When it comes to chatbots, it will provide answers for the whole group.
You can even ask Bing for suggestions on travel, or ask about the weather or about recent award shows.
The answers can be displayed in bullet points, simplified responses or text format, similar to the Bing mobile app.
Available in a Worldwide Preview
It is noteworthy here that Bing in Skype is available in a worldwide preview.
Earlier, Microsoft held an event at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington on February 7.
During this event, Microsoft announced AI-powered updates to the company’s Bing search engine and Edge browser.
These updates were initially released on desktop in a limited preview.
This means users get a finite number of queries to search during the initial period.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the search powered by artificial intelligence is the biggest thing to happen to his company in the nine years he’s been at the helm.
Further adding, “I have not seen something like this since I would say 2007-2008, when the cloud was just first coming out,” in an interview following Microsoft’s event.
