ChatGPT Adding Bing as Its Default Search Experience

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ChatGPT will now use Bing as its built-in search data provider, Microsoft announced today as part of a slew of Build 2023 announcements.

And while the Google faithful or average ChatGPT user may say that Bing is not their search engine of choice, this integration gives ChatGPT a big upgrade in the form of answers based on information from later than 2021. The limitation has been a big drawback of standard ChatGPT, especially in today’s world of swiftly changing circumstances and developments in technology, politics, and nearly every other field of knowledge.

Bing AI is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers starting today, and will be available to free users soon via a plugin that brings Bing to ChatGPT, Microsoft says.

At Build, coding guru Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s EVP for Cloud and AI, reminded developers that ChatGPT is developed and hosted on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud Developer platform. And there are good reasons for this. Not least is Microsoft’s developer tools, which contribute to the effectiveness of AI coding thanks to  helpers like GitHub Copilot and more similar tools coming to Visual Studio. These will, ironically, only get better thanks to ChatGPT.

Azure doesn’t have as much name recognition as Amazon’s AWS or Google Cloud, but it can boast even more unique features not found in the others. Guthrie noted that Azure is the only major cloud infrastructure that supports two Nvidia technologies, both of which boost AI computation. The first is Nvidia Hopper, a class of 80-billion-transistor, 4nm GPUs designed to accelerate AI workloads. The other is InfiniBand Quantum-2 400Gbps networking.

At the time of the partnership last fall, Guthrie was quoted as saying, “Our collaboration with Nvidia unlocks the