AI is everywhere as Microsoft brings it to your smartphone with AI-powered Bing and Edge

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Even as Google and Microsoft tout their AI capabilities, Microsoft has fired another salvo by announcing the preview release of the new Bing and Edge mobile apps for both iOS and Android.

Unfortunately, it’s only available for those who’ve enrolled in the preview and have been accepted to try out the new capabilities. If you haven’t enrolled yet, you’ll need to join the waitlist.

One new user-friendly feature added to the mobile editions of Bing and Edge (for those in the preview) besides the inclusion of ChatGPT, is voice recognition.

According to Microsoft, tapping the Bing icon at the bottom on iOS and Android versions of the app, will initiate a chat session where you can engage in all the same ways you can from the desktop. Receive answers and citations in bullet points, text or simplified responses.

Besides adding AI to Bing and Edge, Microsoft also announced AI-powered Bing for Skype. Users can add Microsoft’s AI to group chats and ask it questions and get responses sent to the whole group. The company added that they are hoping to add this capability to Teams in the future.

So far Microsoft says that more than one million people in 169 countries are testing the preview with 71% of testers giving the new Bing a “thumbs up” on the new search and answers capabilities.