You can access the Bing chatbot without a Microsoft account, but with a limit of 5 requests per session
In early May, Microsoft updated its Bing chatbot and opened it for public testing, and now the company expects to attract an even larger audience by removing the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Michael Schechter, Vice President of Bing, wrote on Twitter that the company “has begun rolling out unauthenticated access to the chatbot.” However, users without a Microsoft account are limited to 5 requests per session, while registered users can use 20.
As some of you have noticed, we’ve started rolling out unauthenticated chat access on Bing. Seeing only 5 chat turns per session? Sign in to have longer conversations.
— Michael Schechter (@mikeschechter) May 17, 2023
Microsoft introduced an updated Bing search engine with artificial intelligence in early February – like ChatGPT, it is based on the OpenAI language model and allows the bot to answer user queries in a human-like language. The latest updates allow Bing to generate images using the built-in Bing Image Creator feature, which supports 100 languages; provide charts, graphs, or videos in responses; store conversation histories; and even interact with third-party services such as OpenTable for restaurant reservations and Apple TV for movie search.
Later, Microsoft plans to add export functions to Bing to share chatbot answers on Twitter or transfer them to a Word document, and is also experimenting with personalizing chatbot sessions so that it can use the context from previous conversations in future conversations. The company is also working on multimodal support – a feature that will allow you to upload images to search for specific content (for example, to ask Bing to search for a cabinet that looks like the furniture you already have in your interior).
