Microsoft Adds GPT-4 Turbo to Copilot

In early November, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use the name Bing Chat for its online AI-generated chatbot, and instead call the service Copilot. Regardless of the name used for the chatbot, Microsoft is working to improve it to make it more convenient for users.

According to one of the plans announced, Microsoft will upgrade this chatbot to the GPT-4 Turbo model recently released by partners from OpenAI. One of the major upgrades will be support for 128k context windows. That means users can enter the equivalent of 300 pages of text prompts in that window, according to Neowin .

Responding to recent questions from users on X (formerly Twitter), Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Director of Web Services and Advertising and the new leader of the Windows and Web Experiences Group, said: GPT-4-turbo still needs to work out some issues.

Bing Chat/Copilot currently has a strict limit of 5,000 characters per conversation. When asked if that limit might increase when GPT-4 Turbo is added to the chatbot, Parakhin said Turbo has a larger contextual window, so they will try to increase the limit.

When an X user asked how GPT-4 Turbo was better than the regular GPT-4, Parakhin replied that it beat the regular GPT-4 in “cognitive intelligence”—Microsoft’s internal measure of how smart the system is when you talk to it. However, the company still had some math and coding issues to work out. GPT-4 Turbo has higher throughput, so it can accommodate more users or reduce the heat of data centers (DCs), improving latency.

"We are still waiting for full support for third-party plugins. GPT-4 Turbo has been in testing for some users for a while," Parakhin stated on X, adding: "This weekend we are gradually rolling out the plugins to everyone. The rollout is not specific to any particular location but to a random percentage of the world ."