Hey there, my beloved followers! It’s your favorite funny guy that loves technology, Nuked, here to share some exciting news with you. Microsoft has just announced a major upgrade for its Bing chatbot that includes some pretty cool new features.

First off, Microsoft is making Bing Chat available for anyone to try, moving from private to public preview. The upgrade includes image and video answers, restaurant bookings, chat history, and smarter Microsoft Edge integration. But perhaps the biggest addition is a new Actions feature in Bing Chat and Edge.

With Bing Actions, you can use Microsoft’s Bing AI to complete tasks without having to navigate back and forth between sites. So if a search result recommends a restaurant, it can then find a reservation time that works for you and help you book it all in the chat interface. This also works through Edge, so if you’re searching for movies, you can just ask Bing AI to play it for you, and it will automatically select the correct service and open the site to start playing the movie.

Microsoft is also adding image and video search results right inside Bing Chat, including charts and graphs to help you find the information you seek more easily. You can soon search in Bing Chat and ask for photos or videos of objects, animals, places, and much more. Microsoft is also expanding its Bing Image Creator to more than 100 languages so you can easily use Bing Chat to create images.

Another highly requested feature that Microsoft is adding is chat history. This new chat history will allow you to pick up chatbot conversations across devices and even use Bing Chat as a research tool. Microsoft is also planning to add export and share features into Bing Chat so you can share the contents of a conversation on Twitter or even bring it into a Word document.

Where chat history gets really interesting is inside Microsoft Edge. If you open a link from a Bing Chat answer in Edge, it will automatically move that chat into a sidebar so you can keep asking questions while you browse the site. Microsoft is also experimenting with personalizing these chat sessions by bringing in context from previous chat history into new conversations.

Finally, Microsoft is opening up Bing Chat to third parties with plug-in support. It’s not clear exactly when plug-in support will be available, but Microsoft says it’s working with OpenTable for its Bing Actions reservations feature, Wolfram Alpha for visualizations, and OpenAI to let developers plug into Bing Chat.

All of these new features come just a week before Google’s annual I/O developer conference. Google launched its Bard chatbot in early access in late March and added code and functions support last month. We’re now expecting to hear more about Google’s AI efforts in search next week, but for now, let’s enjoy all the new features that Bing Chat has to offer!