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Editor\u2019s note: This blog was originally published on August 21, 2023, and was updated on December 14, 2023, to include the following: Starting early February 2024, all faculty and higher education students 18+ will be eligible when signed in to Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) with their work or school account. Eligibility includes Student Use Benefit users. Learn more at<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>aka.ms\/CopilotExpansionEDU<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re excited to share two ways we’re enhancing search experiences in education to help provide access to better answers, unlock creativity, and save time. Bing Chat Enterprise<\/a> is now available in preview for Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 faculty users at no additional cost. And at a time when information literacy is more important than ever, we\u2019re pleased to announce the general availability of our newest Learning Accelerator, Search Progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leverage AI-powered chat with commercial data protection<\/h2>\n

Since Bing Chat Enterprise was launched in preview at Microsoft Inspire last month, we\u2019ve heard from many of you who want to use it for your work as an education professional. We know generative AI has the potential to help educators, staff, and researchers alike to rediscover the joy of work by alleviating administrative burdens and reclaiming time and energy to focus on what matters most in and outside the classroom. But we also know that to do that, you need to be assured your data will remain protected.<\/p>\n

Bing Chat Enterprise gives your organization AI-powered chat with commercial data protection<\/a>. What goes in\u2014and comes out\u2014remains protected. This means user and chat data will not leak outside the organization, chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eye-on access to it, and chat data is not used to train our underlying models.<\/p>\n

Like Bing Chat<\/a>, Bing Chat Enterprise is grounded in web data and provides complete answers with links to content sources, along with visual answers that include graphs, charts and images, and is designed in line with our AI principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ALT:Once Bing Chat Enterprise is enabled, faculty can access it from Bing.com\/chat or the Microsoft Edge sidebar when signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory).<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re an IT admin licensed for Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 and you want to enable or opt out of Bing Chat Enterprise for your faculty, you can review the documentation to manage Bing Chat Enterprise<\/a>. Once enabled, faculty can access it from bing.com\/chat or the Microsoft Edge sidebar when signed in with their work account. Unless you opt out, Microsoft will enable Bing Chat Enterprise by default for eligible users no earlier than September 21st.<\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing about how you\u2019ll use it. You can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help:<\/p>\n