Microsoft had an event yesterday in NYC showing off some new features for Bing Chat, touting some growth figures and announcing it removed the waitlist for the co-pilot feature.

I covered this in more detail on Search Engine Land but honestly, I covered many of these feature announcements on this site already, so you are all familiar with it.

New Features

Here are the updates to Bing Chat:

(1) No more waitlist; just download Edge, sign into your Microsoft account, and go right into Bing Chat.

(2) More visual answers with images, charts, graphs and more – when applicable. We saw this with local results in Bing Chat earlier. Now also for more answers:

(3) Updated formatting of answers, including math formulas:

(4) Bing Image Creator is available to over 100 languages in Bing:

(5) You can upload images and search the web for related content in Bing Chat.

(6) Bing Chat history, saving chats, persistent chats, export chats, share chats and more:

Chat History:

Persistent Chat:

Export Chat:

(7) Plugins with third-party developer support, like with ChatGPT.

Here is an example of OpenTable booking a reservation:

Here is an infographic from Microsoft with these updates (click to enlarge):

Growth:

Here are some of the metrics Microsoft announced in terms of growth since Bing Chat launched 90-days ago:

• Over half a billion chats
• Over 200 million images with Bing Image Creator
• Over 100 million daily active users
• 4X in daily installs of the Bing mobile app
• Overall growth of Bing share over the past eight straight quarters

Oh, that includes growth of the Edge browser, which is important.

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