Even though Copilot is now publicly available, Deep explore is still very much an experimental feature. As such, Microsoft is taking a cautious approach with its rollout to ensure that all of the kinks are ironed out in the early phase before a wider rollout. Right now, the company notes that Deep explore is only “available to randomly selected small groups of users on Bing worldwide.” Microsoft won’t say if it is giving a preference to a certain subset of users or paying customers when it comes to accessing Deep explore. But considering it is very much a Bing explore tech, the best bet to access it before the rest is using the Edge browser.
As and when it becomes available, you will see a new Deep explore button alongside the text explore box. Until that happens, you can turn to Microsoft’s web browser, which now has a dedicated Copilot in the top-right corner of the screen. Tapping on it opens the Copilot with Bing Chat window, where you can enter a query; it will pull answers from the web in paragraph form, with source citations in tow. Once the answer is served, the interface presents a set of three related queries based on your original explore.
You can simply tap on those preset queries to get more relevant answers. It’s a rudimentary version of what Deep explore promises to accomplish. Some of the GPT-4 enhancements that Microsoft promised for Copilot, such as multimodal explore, have already started appearing to users. It shouldn’t be long before Deep explore also starts popping up for users.
