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The little-known predecessor to Copilot: Bing Chat

AuthorRevel Cheng

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PublishedJune 25, 2024

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Bing Chat, the predecessor of Copilot, is an AI chatbot experience from Microsoft based on the popular ChatGPT (version 4) Large Language Model (LLM) from OpenAI, offering similar responses to how humans answer questions. Although ChatGPT plays a key role in the platform, Microsoft has also created a technology known as Prometheus that allows the chatbot to connect with the Bing search engine to generate safer, faster, and more accurate answers to simple and complex questions about virtually any topic and current events. Also read: Bing Chat Chrome Extension

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Also read: OpenAI’s ChatGPT gets Bing web search and DALL-E 3 image generation In February 2023, Microsoft unveiled a new version of its search engine Bing, to compete with ChatGPT. At the time, its standout feature was an AI chatbot powered by more advanced technology than ChatGPT, OpenAI’s GPT-4. At the time of launch, the AI chatbot was called Bing Chat . However, during Microsoft Ignite in November 2023, Microsoft decided to rebrand its chatbot and call it Copilot instead. Copilot can answer questions and get detailed, human-like responses with footnotes that link back to the sources. Since the chatbot is connected to the internet, it can provide up-to-date information.

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Copilot’s predecessor, Bing Chat, is Microsoft’s AI chatbot experience based on OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT (version 4) large language model (LLM) that provides similar responses to how humans answer questions.
In March 2024, Microsoft replaced GPT-4 with GPT-4 Turbo in the free version of Copilot.