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The US-based tech giant Microsoft has announced that over  1 million people signed up on the waitlist to try out the new Bing Search with ChatGPT functionality in just 48 hours.

Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and wrote: “We’re humbled and energized by the number of people who want to test-drive the new AI-powered Bing! In 48 hours, more than 1 million people have joined the waitlist for our preview.

The company last week announced a new version of Bing-powered by a more advanced version of OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 language model. While the new Bing for now is available to only select users, it has already garnered huge interest, with a million people signing up on the waitlist to try it out in just 48 hours.

Mehdi and Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announced the new Bing last week. Microsoft introduced its new Bing powered by “next-generation” ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI), and also updated its Edge browser with new AI capabilities.

The AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser are now available for preview at Bing.com, to “deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content”, the tech giant said.

According to the company, these tools act as an “AI copilot for the web”. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all — search,” said Nadella.

With the new Bing, users get an enhanced version of the standard search experience. The updated search engine is powered by next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT.

It offers more relevant results for common queries like sports scores, stock prices and weather, as well as a new sidebar that displays additional in-depth information if users need it.

Microsoft also announced that it has updated the Edge browser with new AI capabilities and a new look.

(With inputs from agencies)

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