Microsoft's Bing logo next to ChatGPT maker OpenAI's logo.
Microsoft's "new Bing" is powered by artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI.
  • Microsoft Bing had an up-and-down first week after relaunching with new AI superpowers.
  • Users seemed to like the answers it gave — but further inspection showed answers were often wrong. 
  • "New Bing" certainly hasn't yet showed it's going to be a Google-killer.

A week of sparring between Microsoft and Google in this new and exciting phase of the search engine war saw the underdog from Redmond come to terms with the David-and-Goliath battle it faces.