While Bing Chat provides a fun and interactive platform for general users, Bing Chat Enterprise is designed to provide a secure and efficient tool for organizations. In this article, I will highlight the similarities and differences as well as details outlining security when using Bing Chat Enterprise.

Is Bing Chat Enterprise same as the Bing Chat for consumers?

While it’s not the same, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise share several similarities:

  1. AI-Powered: Both platforms are powered by advanced AI models, which enable them to understand and respond to user queries effectively.
  2. Versatile Use Cases: Both versions can assist users in a variety of tasks, such as generating content, summarizing documents, writing code, and more.
  3. Interactive Experience: Both Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise offer an interactive chat experience, allowing users to engage in a conversation with the AI.
  4. Modes of Operation: Both platforms offer three modes of operation – Balanced, Creative, and Precise. These modes allow users to customize the AI’s responses based on their needs.
  5. Language Support: Both versions support multiple languages, allowing users from different linguistic backgrounds to interact with the AI.
  6. Access to Bing’s Knowledge: Both Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise have access to Bing’s vast knowledge base, enabling them to provide accurate and up-to-date information.

How is Bing Chat Enterprise different?

While they share similarities mentioned above, the key difference lies in the target audience and data handling. Bing Chat is designed for general users while Bing Chat Enterprise is tailored for organizations with a focus on data protection.

Here are some key features that differentiate Bing Chat Enterprise from the regular Bing Chat:

  1. Data Protection: Bing Chat Enterprise ensures that chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to it, and it isn’t used to train the underlying models. This is a significant difference from the regular Bing Chat.
  2. Workplace Efficiency: Employees can use Bing Chat Enterprise to get work done faster, be more creative, or support customers better. It can help employees quickly generate content, analyze or compare data, summarize documents, learn new skills, write code, and much more.
  3. Access: If Bing Chat Enterprise is turned on for their organization and they have an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription, employees can access Bing Chat Enterprise from Bing.com/chat and the Microsoft Edge sidebar using their work account.
  4. Availability: Bing Chat Enterprise is available in over 160 regions around the world.

Grounding: Bing Chat vs Microsoft 365 Copilot

The concept of grounding refers to the data that the AI model is based on or trained with. Bing Chat is grounded in data from the public web in the Bing search index. It doesn’t have access to organizational resources or content within Microsoft 365, such as documents in OneDrive, emails, or other data in the Microsoft 365 Graph. Only content provided in the chat by users is accessible to Bing Chat.

Bing Chat Enterprise is also grounded in data from the public web in the Bing search index only. It doesn’t have access to organizational resources or content within Microsoft 365, such as documents in OneDrive, emails, or other data in the Microsoft 365 Graph. Only organizational content provided in the chat by users is accessible to Bing Chat Enterprise.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, on the other hand, is grounded in work data inside your tenant boundaries. It works with your data in the Microsoft Graph—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more—and the Microsoft 365 apps to help you become more productive by leveraging your enterprise assets.

Is my data secure with Bing Chat Enterprise?

Yes! Any data shared by the user in a chat session with Bing Chat Enterprise is secure. Here’s how:

  1. Data Isolation: Bing Chat Enterprise doesn’t have access to organizational resources or content within Microsoft 365, such as documents in OneDrive, emails, or other data in the Microsoft 365 Graph. Only organizational content provided in the chat by users is accessible to Bing Chat Enterprise.
  2. Data Protection: Bing Chat Enterprise ensures that chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to it, and it isn’t used to train the underlying models. This means that any data you share during a chat session is not stored or used for any other purposes.
  3. Privacy Compliance: Bing Chat Enterprise complies with Microsoft’s privacy policies and standards. It’s designed to respect user privacy and maintain the confidentiality of your data.

Remember, while Bing Chat Enterprise can access only the data shared by the user in the chat, and only for the duration of your chat session to assist you better, it doesn’t save this data or use it to train its underlying models. This ensures that your data remains secure and private.

Can Administrators control access to Bing Chat Enterprise?

Administrators have full control over the deployment of Bing Chat Enterprise within their organization. They can turn it on or off for their users through the administrative settings. This allows businesses to customize the use of Bing Chat Enterprise based on their specific needs and preferences.

Here’s how:

  1. Turn Off Bing Chat Enterprise: Turning off Bing Chat Enterprise reverts bing.com/chat, Edge sidebar, and Windows Copilot to the Bing Chat consumer experience. To turn off Bing Chat Enterprise, go to Bing Chat Enterprise Admin Controls and set the Bing Chat Enterprise setting to Off. It may take up to 48 hours for this change to go into effect.
  2. Turn On Bing Chat Enterprise: If you have turned off Bing Chat Enterprise (or if it hasn’t yet been enabled by default), your organization needs to have the following configuration completed by a Global admin or Search admin:
    • Ensure the Microsoft Search in Bing setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center is turned on.
    • Use a new window to log in to Bing.com with your Global admin or Search admin credentials.
    • Go to Bing Chat Enterprise Admin Controls to turn on Bing Chat Enterprise.
    • Confirm no other settings exist in your environment that block access to Bing Chat.
    • This change may take up to 48 hours to go into effect.

It’s important to note that turning off the Microsoft Search in Bing setting in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center prevents the use of a Microsoft Entra ID (currently known as Azure Active Directory) work account with Bing. Without turning this on, Bing Chat Enterprise isn’t accessible and users will only see the consumer Bing Chat experience, which they can use with their personal ID as they would on their home computers.

Additional Resources

If you would like to learn more about Bing Chat Enterprise, here are some helpful resources:

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