Microsoft is launching its own AI-powered summaries for Bing, as announced on Wednesday.
Initially, Bing’s generative search feature will be activated for a limited set of specific web searches, such as “what is a spaghetti western” and “how long do elephants live.” When this feature is enabled, Bing generates a comprehensive block of AI-produced text along with its sources. Users can click on text pulled from a specific site to be directed to the original webpage.
“This new experience integrates Bing’s foundational search results with the capabilities of large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs). It comprehends the search query, evaluates millions of information sources, dynamically matches content, and generates search results in a new AI-driven format to more effectively meet the user’s query intent,” Microsoft’s statement reads.
Regular Bing search results will still appear on the right side of the AI text as well as below it. Similar to Google Search’s AI Overviews, Bing’s AI search allows users to upvote or downvote the AI’s output. However, Microsoft’s feedback buttons are more prominently displayed at the top of the AI section, whereas Google’s are hidden under an expandable section that needs to be clicked to be seen.
