Microsoft is now rolling out its Bing-powered AI chatbot in a sidebar in its Edge browser. The Bing sidebar was initially only available in dev versions of Edge, but it is now unroll to stable versions of Microsoft Edge on both Windows and macOS.
The new sidebar appears as a large Bing button in the top left corner of Edge, and hovering over or clicking on it activates the new Bing chatbot experience. If you’re a member of the Bing Preview, you can use the chat feature to ask the chatbot questions or the compose option to generate text for emails, blog posts, letters, and much more.
Because the sidebar is based on the context of the page you’re viewing in Edge, for example, if you’re viewing a product, you can ask the chatbot to summarize information about a shopping site. The Bing sidebar can also summarize articles, compare items on a web page, and let you choose from different tones to generate text in blog posts, emails, bulleted lists, and more.
This new Bing sidebar in Edge shows where Microsoft could go with its AI features for Windows, Office and elsewhere. Google just announced its own plans to add ChatGPT-like AI to Gmail and Google Docs, enabling Google Workspace users to automatically generate emails, documents, and more.
Microsoft is expected to unveil similar features at an AI for work event on Thursday. The event will likely focus on how Microsoft’s ChatGPT-like AI will work in Office apps like Teams, Word, and Outlook. Earlier this month, Microsoft launched a similar new generative Copilot AI experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Viva Sales, which uses the Azure OpenAI service to automatically create sales emails.
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