Microsoft is accelerating user access to its new Bing AI, opening up the GPT-4-powered search offering instantly to most people who sign up.
The company appears to have unofficially removed the waitlist for the chat-enabled search engine, though the sign-up page still displays a "join waitlist" button.
- TechCrunch and other media outlets that attempted to join the waitlist were granted immediate access to the new Bing through most of the email IDs they used.
- In
a statement, Microsoft said Bing AI remains in preview mode, though the
company is "running various tests, which may accelerate access to the
new Bing for some users."
- Earlier this week, Bing revealed that the new version of its search engine has already been running an early version of GPT-4 for the last five weeks.
- It's also updated the Bing chatbot to allow for 15 questions per session and a max of 150 sessions per day.
- Microsoft began rolling out an early preview of its AI-powered Bing to the first wave of testers in mid-February.
- Within the first 48 hours, 1 million people had signed up on a waitlist to try out a full version of the service.
