Microsoft's new Bing was using GPT-4 all along

When Microsoft introduced the new AI-enabled Bing, which it constructed on prime of OpenAI’s GPT versions, neither company would confirm which model of GPT was staying employed past indicating it was a upcoming-gen edition of the model that driven ChatGPT. Currently, OpenAI declared GPT-4, a sizeable update to GPT-3.5. As it turns out, Bing was applying it all alongside.

“We are delighted to verify that the new Bing is functioning on GPT-4, which we have custom made for search,” Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi, the company’s corporate VP and customer main marketing and advertising officer, wrote in today’s announcement. “If you’ve used the new Bing preview at any time in the past five months, you’ve presently knowledgeable an early variation of this potent model.”

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When Microsoft introduced the new Bing, there were a great deal of rumors that it ran GPT-4 previously, so this isn’t a big shock, but it is fascinating to see that Microsoft was self-assured plenty of in the product to stake its status on it — and to fork out the expenses for this a lot more advanced model. Microsoft, it’s worthy of noting, is employing a mixture of GPT-4 and its personal Prometheus design in purchase to supply much more up to day facts and set guardrails about OpenAI’s model.

Following a rougher start out than the organization possibly expected (in aspect for the reason that the new Bing was prone to hallucinations), Microsoft quickly iterated on the new Bing in modern months and just after placing a range of constraints on it early on, the organization is now loosening up once again. Only yesterday, Microsoft extended the range of possible turns in a discussion to 15 and now allows end users up to 150 chats for every day.

So if you want to give the new GPT-4 product a consider, just head over to Bing (or get on the waitlist, if you have not accomplished so nonetheless).

Bing by itself, by the way, continue to insists that it does not operate on GPT-4. Anyone requires to convey to Sydney that it’s not beneath NDA anymore…