Microsoft is planning first to work on relaxing the Bing Chat limits and chat caps for the balanced mode before working on relaxing those limits on other modes, said Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Bing.

He said this on Twitter, ” we want to keep relaxing constraints in every mode.” “Right now focusing on getting the balance of Balanced right, then you should expect some further relaxation,” he added on Twitter.

He also said Microsoft is seeing “weird spikes in time-to-first-token we don’t understand” saying they want to get these “stabilize Balanced” mode “and get the latency spikes under control first,” before doing the same for Creative and Precise chat modes.

Here are those tweets:

As I stated previously, we want to keep relaxing constraints in every mode. Right now focusing on getting the balance of Balanced right, then you should expect some further relaxation.

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 20, 2023

Honestly, I want the team to stabilize Balanced and get the latency spikes under control first. We get these weird spikes in time-to-first-token we don’t understand (token generation speed seems fine…).

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 21, 2023

I did ask Bing Chat about this, and it is going with the PR spin. 🙂

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Google has added a new section to the Google Search Status Dashboard – Ranking. The Ranking section will show the confirmed Google ranking updates that Google already posts on its Google updates page.

So now we have crawling, indexing, serving and ranking – ranking being the new one – on this Google Search Status Dashboard. You can access the status dashboard over here.

New dashboard:

Here is what it looks like with data:

And you click on the i and it shows this:

Old dashboard:

Google should be listing in the ranking section the names of the confirmed Google updates, such as the March 2023 core update and other Google algorithm updates.

Here is Google’s announcement on this:

We’re working on unifying the ranking updates page with https://t.co/hQKAEilPD1. Soon, the new “Ranking” section will show the active March 2023 core update, plus history up to 2020. We’ll update this tweet once we’re finished migrating.

— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) March 21, 2023

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Microsoft has announced that Bing Chat in “creative” mode can now create images based on you inputting a description of what you want it to create or referencing another image. Jordi Ribas from Microsoft said on Twitter, “now you can create an image by simply using your own words to describe the picture you want to see.”

It basically just brings in the Bing Image Creator tool that we saw Microsoft integrate within Bing Search recently.

Here is how it looks, although, at the time I am writing this, it does not seem to want to make images for me…

Here is Jodi showing it off on Twitter:

You can also create images directly in Bing Image Creator at https://t.co/rsE3EVS8xf, but I like to use it within Bing Chat—it’s fun to do it iteratively within the multi-turn chat. (2/4) pic.twitter.com/PVXurCms9y

— Jordi Ribas (@JordiRib1) March 21, 2023

This is powered by OpenAI’s DALL∙E model, which Microsoft says they are using a more “advanced version” of that model.

Personally, I have been having a ton of fun using MidJourney – you may have noticed some of the header images on this site look a bit different.

Forum discussion at Twitter and WebmasterWorld.