Exclusive! 1.9bn users engage on AI-powered chats over Edge, Bing says Microsoft - ITREALMS

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Microsoft Corporation has declared that its Edge browser and Bing search engine users engaged in over 1.9 billion Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chats as at the end of the 2023, reports ITREALMS.

Microsoft Edge is a web browser made by Microsoft, installed by default on all new Windows computers which alleges to run faster and with additional features than Internet Explorer, and could sync your browsing data and prides itself a secure and user-friendly web browser that offers features such as Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Password Monitor, InPrivate search, and Kids Mode to mention but a few.

On the other hand, Microsoft Bing, commonly known as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search. Bing, thus offers a broad spectrum of search services, encompassing web, video as well as text, image, and map search products, all developed using ASP.NET.




The technology giant pointed out that by engaging over 1.9bn who used its AI-powered solution like the Edge, is comparable to the total number of websites that existed same time last year Microsoft




Equally, it created over 1.8 billion images, which it said is more than the entire combined collection of the Louvre and Met Museums when multiplied by 1,800, whereas game lovers played almost 9000 years of free casual games which equals to over 4.7 billion minutes of free, casual games played on Microsoft Edge since the future was launched, just as gamers earned some 148 million Microsoft Reward points for the period under review, which is enough for 1000 years of Xbox Games Pass Ultimate.

Also, Microsoft revealed that it saved users on average of $400 while shopping online via Edge and stopped over 127 million phishing attacks.




ITREALMS gathered that 127 million attacks was equivalent of four phishing attacks stopped every second for an entire year.




More people, according to Microsoft, played the Edge Surf games daily than the population of Surf City, California.




Edge browser users were further urged to personalise their browser for 2024 by adding a unique and customised theme which affords them to enable vertical or dark ode with Copilot.




ITREALMS equally recalled that Microsoft Copilot is powered by GPT-4 which is in Edge, promoted as AI companion for the web which assist users to create, find and do beyond what they thought was possible.




Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) is a multimodal large language model created by OpenAI, and the fourth in its series of GPT foundation models. It was launched on March 14, 2023.

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