Category: Software

Microsoft has published a lengthy post that reveals some details on creation their Bing bot. The OpenAI's model combined with the Bing data allowed them to build an exciting product, but the bot's history dates back at least six years.

Microsoft has released preview versions of the Bing and Edge apps that support the recently launched ChatGPT-based Bing chatbot for Android and iOS. The company notes that 64% of search queries are on smartphones, so they consider it a very important release.

Mojang Studios and Microsoft are experimenting with bringing AI to Minecraft. They are trying to make it more accessible to gamers. The information comes from Semafor that refers to its own sources. Moreover, Microsoft has already held an internal presentation where it demonstrated a version of Minecraft with large-scale integration of the OpenAI platform.

Next month Microsoft will start public testing of the new Teams client. It  has been developed for several years as 'Microsoft Teams 2.0' or and 'Microsoft Teams 2.1'. The new version is built from scratch, will consume 50% less memory and be more power efficient than the current app.

Microsoft today announced that WSL now supports hardware video encoding and decoding. The implementation makes it possible to use hardware processing, encoding and decoding of video in any application that supports VAAPI. The above is supported for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics cards.

Microsoft has announced a new version of the Bing search engine that comes bundled with the latest version of the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI. As you could expect, Microsoft Edge will also have AI-powered features via tighter integration with Bing.

Some screenshots of Microsoft Bing integrated with ChatGPT found their path to the Internet. A user reportedly managed to get access to the preliminary version of the search service for some brief moment of time before it was shut off.

Microsoft has released a new stable version of PowerToys. PowerToys 0.67 include the recently announced Quick access-like launcher that opens via the system tray icon and allows you to access the tools faster. Besides, there are fixes and general improvements.

Microsoft's Bing search engine may reportedly receive integration with an updated version of ChatGPT, also known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks. The new model is significantly faster than GPT-3, on which ChatGPT is currently based.