Microsoft Made a Bing for AI Agents

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A suite of web APIs built for AI agents that helps them scour the web faster for search results is already being used by Copilot, ChatGPT and "many others."

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Microsoft predicts that, soon, most online searches will be completed by artificial intelligence agents acting on behalf of humans, rather than humans themselves. And the big tech company has just announced Microsoft Web IQ, its new suite of APIs built for AI agents that helps them scrape the web faster and more comprehensively.

Web IQ is a search engine for AI systems, Microsoft said during its annual developers conference, Microsoft Build, on Tuesday. It connects AI tools to information across the web, but presents it in a different way than a search engine would for a human.

"We traditionally have had search engines for humans, like Bing," Jordi Ribas, Microsoft's president of search and AI, told CNET...

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