Microsoft confirmed that it will relax the character limit in the consumer version and enterprise version of Bing chat. The current limit is 4,000 characters, but will increase to 8,000 characters in the future.
The change was announced on Twitter by Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s vice president of search, who responded to a tweet from a user who said their company was using Bing Chat Enterprise and the only downside was the character limit. Parakhin said the character limit will expand, but not soon. He explained that the algorithm that drives Bing Chat is quadratic with context size, so increasing the limit to 8,000 characters would quadruple the cost.
In addition to increasing the character limit, Microsoft has made other improvements to Bing Chat. A plug-in for Bing Chat is now available, and an enterprise version will be released as a standalone product for $5 per user per month. Users of Microsoft’s Edge browser will also be able to use the command prompt in the Bing Chat sidebar to change browser settings. Additionally, Bing AI Chat is no longer exclusive to Edge and is available to users on other browsers such as Chrome and Safari.
