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At Microsoft Encourage, we introduced Bing Chat Enterprise, AI-powered chat for work that lets organizations confidently take their first steps generative AI. 

Bing Chat Enterprise, out there in Preview, offers your group AI-powered chat for work with industrial knowledge safety. With Bing Chat Enterprise, person and enterprise knowledge are protected and won’t leak exterior the group. What goes in—and comes out—stays protected. Chat knowledge just isn’t saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on entry to your knowledge, and your knowledge just isn’t used to coach the fashions. Whether or not researching business insights, analyzing knowledge, or searching for inspiration, Bing Chat Enterprise offers folks entry to raised solutions, larger effectivity, and new methods to be inventive. 

Bing Chat Enterprise will begin rolling out at the moment in Preview to organizations licensed for Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Enterprise Premium, and Enterprise Customary at no further value. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA 

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA graphic

Need to study extra about about Bing Chat Enterprise? Be part of our AMA on August 10, 2023 at 9AM PDT to get your questions answered. https://aka.ms/365CopilotAMA

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Which Microsoft 365 prospects are eligible to begin utilizing Bing Chat Enterprise now? 

Prospects licensed for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Enterprise Customary, and Enterprise Premium are eligible for Bing Chat Enterprise at no further value. 

When and the way can eligible Microsoft 365 prospects begin utilizing Bing Chat Enterprise? 

Bing Chat Enterprise will begin rolling out in preview at the moment (July 18, 2023) to eligible prospects. Proper now, IT admins can activate Bing Chat Enterprise by utilizing this hyperlink: https://aka.ms/TurnOnBCE.  

Sooner or later, Bing Chat Enterprise will probably be mechanically turned on for all eligible prospects until they choose out. Extra info on how IT directors can flip Bing Chat Enterprise on or off is obtainable right here: https://study.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/ 
 
Bing Chat Enterprise is accessible by way of bing.com and the sidebar in Microsoft Edge. It can additionally come to Home windows Copilot sooner or later. 

How do I do know if I’m utilizing Bing Chat Enterprise as an alternative of Bing Chat? 

Workers utilizing Bing Chat Enterprise will probably be signed in to Bing.com/chat utilizing their work account. As soon as they achieve this, they’ll see that Bing Chat Enterprise has a novel design that distinguishes it from the patron model of Bing Chat. Above the chat enter field and on prime of each chat reply, customers will see a message that claims, “Your private and firm knowledge are protected on this chat”. 

What are the variations between Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise? 

Bing Chat Enterprise gives the generative AI capabilities of Bing Chat with industrial knowledge safety. Bing Chat Enterprise with industrial knowledge safety means person and enterprise knowledge is protected and won’t leak exterior the group, chat knowledge just isn’t saved, Microsoft has no eye-on entry to it, and chat knowledge just isn’t used to coach our underlying fashions.  

What are the variations between Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot? 

Bing Chat Enterprise permits you to use the facility of generative AI at work, with industrial knowledge safety. Microsoft 365 Copilot takes this to the following stage and provides a superset of options that allow folks to be productive and inventive at work in a complete new approach by grounding solutions in your small business knowledge like paperwork, emails, calendar, chats, conferences and extra to ship extremely wealthy and actionable responses to your questions. 

Is the product absolutely supported by Microsoft, or are there any use restrictions? 

Bing Chat Enterprise is in public preview and is absolutely supported by Microsoft. 

Arrange 

How can IT admins activate Bing Chat Enterprise proper now? 

To activate Bing Chat Enterprise at the moment, your group might want to have the next configuration accomplished by an IT administrator:  

Customers of eligible tenants with the above configuration will obtain Bing Chat Enterprise when utilizing Microsoft Edge on Bing.com/chat and Edge sidebar. 

For extra info on the right way to activate Bing Chat enterprise, go right here: https://study.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/

Which IT admin roles can activate or flip off Bing Chat Enterprise?

Solely Search and International Directors can activate or flip off Bing Chat Enterprise.

What are the system necessities and compatibility of Bing Chat Enterprise?  

• Customers should be licensed for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Enterprise Customary or Enterprise Premium.  Sooner or later, they will also be licensed for the Bing Chat Enterprise stand-alone SKU.  
• IT directors will need to have enabled Microsoft Search in Bing within the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle.  
• Proper now, IT admin can opt-in to Bing Chat Enterprise by navigating to: https://aka.ms/TurnOnBCE. 
• Customers should log in to https://bing.com/chat with a Microsoft Entra ID (presently referred to as Azure Lively Listing) Study extra. 

• Prospects will need to have entry to the web and use Microsoft Edge as their browser.  Sooner or later, Third-party browsers may even be supported. 

Will Bing Chat Enterprise be turned on or off by default?  

Beginning on July 18, 2023, Bing Chat Enterprise won’t be turned on within the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle by default. Prospects who need to activate Bing Chat Enterprise throughout this time will want to take action utilizing the activation URL: https://aka.ms/TurnOnBCE. 

Bing Chat Enterprise will probably be turned on by default on August 17, 2023.  The rationale for doing so is to make sure that workers who entry Bing Chat from bing.com, Edge sidebar, or Home windows Copilot have the very best stage of information safety.  Enabling Bing Chat Enterprise within the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle won’t override every other network-level controls put in place by IT directors to regulate who of their group has entry to https://bing.com/chat (or different coverage controls managing worker entry to Edge sidebar or Home windows Copilot).  

Prospects who don’t need to provide Bing Chat Enterprise to their customers earlier than or after August 17, 2023 can choose out.  Extra info on how to do that may be discovered right here: https://study.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/

How do I flip off Bing Chat Enterprise proper now? 

Proper now, IT admins can discover extra details about the right way to flip off Bing Chat Enterprise right here: https://study.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/

I need to block all entry to Bing Chat for my group—how do I do that? 

Data on the right way to block entry to Bing Chat is obtainable right here: Blocking grownup content material with SafeSearch or blocking Chat – Microsoft Help  

Can I exploit Bing Chat Enterprise with any browser? 

Solely Microsoft Edge is supported at the moment, however now we have introduced assist for Bing Chat on Third-party browsers is coming. 

What model of Microsoft Edge is required to make use of Bing Chat Enterprise within the Edge sidebar?
At the moment, Bing Chat Enterprise with T&C for Edge sidebar is obtainable on Microsoft Edge beginning with model 114.0.1823.86 and better releases in Edge secure and dev channels. 

Information safety 

How does Bing Chat Enterprise shield my knowledge? 

Consumer and enterprise knowledge in Bing Chat Enterprise is protected and won’t leak exterior the group. Chat knowledge just isn’t saved, and Microsoft has no eyes-on entry to it.  Chat knowledge can be not used to coach our underlying fashions. 

Is Bing Chat Enterprise in a position to see my Microsoft 365 knowledge? 

With out Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise just isn’t in a position to see your knowledge in Microsoft 365 until workers particularly copy Microsoft 365 knowledge and enter it right into a immediate.  Even then, person and enterprise knowledge put into Bing Chat Enterprise is protected and won’t leak exterior the group. Chat knowledge just isn’t saved, and Microsoft has no eyes-on entry to it.  Chat knowledge can be not used to coach our underlying fashions. 

What’s the easiest way to confirm the accuracy of data offered by Bing Chat Enterprise? 

Similar to Bing Chat, Bing Chat Enterprise solutions advanced questions by distilling info from a number of internet sources right into a single response. Bing Chat Enterprise gives linked citations to those solutions so the person can additional discover and analysis as they might with conventional search.  

Utilization 

How can workers entry Bing Chat Enterprise? 

If Bing Chat Enterprise is turned on for his or her group they usually have an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription, workers can entry Bing Chat Enterprise from Bing.com/chat and the Microsoft Edge sidebar utilizing their work account beginning at the moment (July 18, 2023). It can even be accessible in Home windows Copilot sooner or later.  

What sorts of issues can workers do with Bing Chat Enterprise? 

Workers can use Bing Chat Enterprise to get work completed quicker, be extra inventive, or assist prospects higher. All of this may be completed with the arrogance that person and enterprise knowledge is protected and won’t leak exterior the group. For instance, Bing Chat Enterprise might help workers shortly generate content material, analyze or evaluate knowledge, summarize paperwork, study new expertise, write code, and far more.  Whereas workers do that, they are often assured their organizational knowledge is protected. 

For instance, you’ll be able to ask Bing Chat Enterprise that will help you: 

• Perceive the implications of a choice: “What are the professionals and cons of offline advertising methods?” and “How can I measure the success of my offline advertising marketing campaign?”  
• Study new expertise: “What are the highest 5 issues I ought to know when managing a big venture?” and “What’s agile venture administration and the way does it differ from waterfall?”  

• Analyze knowledge: “If we’re forecasting 7% EPS development this coming quarter, how does our inner forecast evaluate with EPS development within the prime US public CPG firms?”  
• Summarize a piece PDFs open in Edge: “Recap the findings of this inner cybersecurity report and the highest 3 issues” and “What are finest practices for addressing these sorts of safety points?”  
• Write higher code quicker: “Write a daily expression in Python that matches e-mail addresses” or “How can I exploit the unittest module to write down take a look at models for my Python code.”  
• Plan a enterprise journey: “The place ought to I keep in Manhattan that has an excellent working path shut by?”  
• Generate social media content material: “Use this messaging framework to generate 5 social media posts describing its worth to healthcare staff.” 

Does Bing Chat Enterprise assist the Compose function within the Edge sidebar? 

Bing Chat Enterprise helps the Compose function in Edge sidebar and our commitments to industrial knowledge safety apply. You may entry Compose by clicking the Bing icon within the upper-right of the Edge toolbar, after which clicking Compose on the prime of the facet pane.  

Are there options in Bing Chat that don’t seem in Bing Chat Enterprise? 

The plan is to have the total function set throughout each. Initially, chat historical past, plugin assist, Bing Picture Creator and Visible Search in Chat are usually not supported in Bing Chat Enterprise.  

Can Bing Chat Enterprise be accessed from the cell Bing app? 

Our plan is to convey Bing Chat Enterprise to cell. Initially, it received’t be supported within the Bing cell app.   

Licensing 

What would be the price of the stand-alone model? 

The stand-alone model of Bing Chat Enterprise will probably be provided at USD$5 per person per 30 days. 

Are Schooling or Authorities prospects with equal Microsoft 365 A or G SKUs eligible for Bing Chat Enterprise? 

No. Right now, prospects with Microsoft 365 A or G SKUs are usually not eligible for Bing Chat Enterprise. 

What about Frontline Employee SKUs? 

No. Right now, prospects with Microsoft 365 F SKUs are usually not eligible for Bing Chat Enterprise. 

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How can my buyer present suggestions/strategies for enchancment?  

Prospects can contact their account consultant or use the Bing Chat Enterprise FAQ (Microsoft 365 TechCommunity Weblog), Microsoft Bing TechCommunity or the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle TechCommunity to ask questions and supply suggestions or strategies relying on the subject.

Customers can present suggestions on particular chat responses as nicely straight from the Bing Chat Enterprise interface by giving a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ and offering extra particular feedback. 

How does Microsoft method accountable AI?

Microsoft believes that whenever you create applied sciences that may change the world, you need to additionally be certain that the know-how is used responsibly. We’re dedicated to creating accountable AI by design. Our work is guided by a core set of rules: equity, reliability and security, privateness and safety, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. To study extra about our AI Rules, click on right here: Accountable AI Rules and Method | Microsoft AI. We’re placing these rules into observe throughout the corporate to develop and deploy AI that may have a constructive affect on society. We take a cross-company method by means of cutting-edge analysis, best-of-breed engineering programs, and excellence in coverage and governance. Accountable AI is a journey, and we’ll frequently enhance our programs alongside the best way. Go to the Bing weblog for the most recent on our learnings and progress. We’re dedicated to creating our AI extra dependable and reliable, and your suggestions will assist us achieve this. To study extra about the right way to use BCE responsibly, please see our BCE product finish person phrases: Phrases of use | Microsoft Study.

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