• Microsoft is moving its OpenAI-powered Bing Chat out of the Edge browser exclusively and making it available on Chrome and Safari.
• It is being tested out with select users for now, but will receive a wider rollout in future.
• You will need to be logged into your Microsoft account in order to access it, regardless of the browser, however.

Microsoft shows no signs of slowing down when it comes to rolling out new features and tools powered by OpenAI’s technology. Having launched Bing Chat earlier this year as an exclusive for the Edge browser, the AI-powered chatbot is set to make its way to the likes of Chrome and Safari.

While a full rollout has not happened yet, Microsoft is indeed making it available to select users to test for now, confirming as much after a handful of Windows-focused blogs spotted the feature earlier this week.

“We are flighting access to Bing Chat in Safari and Chrome to select users as part of our testing on other browsers,” Caitlin Roulston, Microsoft’s director of communications told The Verge in a statement.

“We are excited to expand access to even more users once our standard testing procedures are complete,” she added.

Precisely when that will be remains to be seen, but details on the expansion will see the Chrome and Safari versions of the chat tool be a little less powerful than the Edge version. This as you will need to be logged into a Microsoft account to access, along with halving the prompts and character limit to 2 000 compared to 4 000 on Edge.

Engadget, which gained access to the aforementioned test, also note that conversations reset after five queries, which is far less than the 30 available on the Edge iteration of Bing Chat.

Hopefully these limitations are the testing alone, and once it is ready to fully roll out to Chrome and Safari users, they will gain access to everything Bing Chat currently has to offer.

Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, although not as powerful or feature rich, this rollout does, however, see Microsoft continue to stay a step ahead of its competitors when it comes to making AI-powered tools publicly available.