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Microsoft is bringing Bing Chat, its \u201ccopilot for the web,\u201d to Skype and Bing Mobile, where you\u2019ll have a chance to add Bing Chat to your group chats and let its AI features help you out.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Bing Chat will be added to the Bing mobile app, where you\u2019ll be able to orally dictate or type a chat to the Bing AI chat on both iOS and Android. The same features will be available on the mobile version of Microsoft Edge. Finally, you\u2019ll be able to invoke Bing (via @Bing) from Skype group chats with your friends, and ask Bing for recommendations, jokes, advice, and so on.<\/p>\n

However, you\u2019ll still need to sign up for the Bing Chat waitlist to see the new Bing Chat in action, in whatever app. You can join the waitlist at , where Microsoft will advise you to tweak your browser to the Microsoft-approved defaults to move higher up the queue.<\/p>\n

Microsoft may be proceeding a bit slower than expected with its Bing Chat deployment. Instead of rolling it out first to Microsoft Teams, for example, the feature is being added to the somewhat-less-utilized Teams app. Statista reported that Microsoft Teams had 270 million daily users as of 2022, while Microsoft said Wednesday that 36 million people around the world use Skype.<\/p>\n

The new Bing Chat can be invoked via Skype chats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cAs we learn and fine-tune this amazing new capability, we envision bringing it to other communications apps, like Teams, in the future,\u201d Microsoft in a blog post.<\/p>\n
While Microsoft appears to be making Bing available to mobile users with the same capabilities (and limitations<\/a>) as the desktop application, there\u2019s apparently one key difference: Microsoft\u2019s version of Edge with Bing inside allows you to craft ideas and summarize documents from the sidebar in the desktop browser. It doesn\u2019t appear that that capability is within Edge, at least not yet. Microsoft is treating both the updates to the Edge and Bing apps as \u201cpreviews,\u201d however, leaving room for future updates.<\/p>\n
In a quick hands-on, Bing appeared to be the same chatbot as on the desktop. Bing\u2019s speech recognition, however, was abysmal. A query, \u201cWhere in Hawaii should I visit,\u201d was interpreted as \u201cwhere at the vet.\u201d Since Bing only allows limited queries per session as well as daily, you may want to type chats into the mobile app for now.<\/p>\n
*This story was updated at 10:13 AM with a hands-on.<\/em><\/p>\n*
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\n\t\t\n\t\tAuthor: Mark Hachman<\/a>, Senior Editor\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nAs PCWorld’s senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n