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The new upper limit on chat turns in the Bing Chat chatbot service was confirmed by Microsoft exec Jordi Ribas today, and this is the first expansion of this feature since mid-March.

The next Bing Chat update from Microsoft will also have some more improvements for Bing Image Creator, and a "big internals refactoring" so it can launch support for third-party plugins

Microsoft's proposed AI governance blueprint includes putting in new safety requirements, creating new regulations for AI services, and offering academic and non-profit access to those systems.

Adding Bing search to OpenAI's ChatGPT will bring more recent information to the chatbot, while the new Bing Chat plugin partners will include Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin, and more.

The increase in characters from 2,000 to 4,000 for each Bing Chat message should make it easier for users to ask more complex questions to Microsoft's chatbot AI that might need the extra characters

Microsoft also confirmed that the chat history feature is now available for all Bing Chat users along with improved answers for recipe questions, and a number of other improvements.

The new features allow Microsoft's Bing Chat users to not only copy and share chats with others, but to download and save them in Text, Word, and even PDF files. More export options are in the works.

The announcement from Microsoft's Bing Vice President Michael Schechter, should allow even more people to check out the company's Bing Chat chatbot AI without having to get a Microsoft Account.

Bing Chat has gained the ability to provide visual answers to some questions, along with improvements in copying and pasting answers as well as formatting for some prompts like bullets and numbers.

Some current Bing Chat users are reporting that responses from the chatbot are very slow at the moment, but Microsoft says this will be fixed by adding more GPUs to its Bing Chat servers.

The new formatting will allow answers in Bing Chat to use features like bold lettering, along with answers in bulleted lists and tables when Microsoft's chatbot is in Creative mode.

The third-party plug-in support will allow businesses and developers to access Bing Chat's generative AI features, with ways to reserve a table at a restaurant directly from within Bing Chat.

In a blog post, Natasha Crampton, Microsoft's Chief Responsible AI Officer, outlined how the company plans to keep to its own principles concerning its artificial intelligence products.

Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered one of the major developers of modern AI, recently left his job at Google so he could speak more freely about the risks of letting AI get out of control.

In addition to the travel and recipes improvements, the Bing Chat team has made further changes to reduce the number of times the chatbot ends conversations abruptly, along with an Edge sidebar fix.

The latest weekly update from Microsoft also improves Bing Chat answers when it comes to questions about the news, along with fewer instances when the chatbot abruptly ends a conversation

Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin was asked on Twitter if third-party plugin support for Bing Chat could be added like there is now for ChatGPT, and his response was simply, "Stay tuned."

Microsoft is starting to place links to ads inside of Bing Chat conversations. It is working with its Microsoft Start partners to place ads both inside chats or rich captions beside chat answers.

A new and better format for showing math solutions is currently being tested by a small percentage of Bing Chat users and will become available for everyone in the very near future.

A new report claims Microsoft has told two search engines that get some data from Bing to not use that information to power their own AI chatbots, which could compete with Microsoft's Bing Chat.

Microsoft has fixed some nagging Bing Chat issues, including some improvements with detecting a voice in the Bing mobile app and more, but the ability to save chat histories is still in development.

Microsoft executive Mikhail Parakhin admitted that Google's Bard chatbot is still "impressive" based on "the low amount of compute they had", but added they "never underestimate Google."

Currently, Bing Image Creator is playing it on the safe side in terms of generating AI art on certain subjects, including apparently with Bing itself. However, those limits will be relaxed in time.

The Google Bard wait list site is now live, allowing the general public the chance to try out the company's competitor to ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat, first for people in the US and the UK.

The new sharing feature is one of several new additions to Bing Chat that Microsoft mentions in a new blog post, alongside faster responses when the service is set to “Balanced” mode and more.

Microsoft has once again raised the cap of chat turn limits in Bing Chat, and it's also making a change in the Balance tone selection to make it provide quicker and shorter answers.

Microsoft reveals that it has finally crossed the 100 million daily active users mark. However, credit here goes to the recently launched AI-powered Bing Search and efforts with the Edge browser.

The new chat turn limit for individual sessions comes in addition to the 120 daily turn limit for Microsoft's Bing Chat as the company continues to expand sessions for its public testers

Microsoft continues to modify its Bing Chat limits expanding the number of chat turns in individual sessions from six to eight turns. Also, the new Tone Selector could get changed based on feedback.

Some people who are currently using Microsoft's Bing Chat service are seeing a "Something went wrong" error when they attempt to use the chatbot. The team is currently working on a fix.