5 Announcements that Show Why Copilot is the Best Platform to Build AI Products Today
Microsoft has made strategic investments in talent, technology, and strategy over the past decade to drive their AI vision forward.
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Microsoft is an early investor and a long-term partner of OpenAI. Their diverse AI portfolio includes Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into offerings such as GitHub, Dynamics, Microsoft 365, Windows OS, and the Edge Browser. With Azure AI, users can build and deploy tailored AI solutions as well as construct their own machine learning models.
Third Party Extensions Are Coming to GitHub Copilot
With Copilot Extensions, developers can interact with tools using natural language within GitHub Copilot Chat.
Microsoft Partners with Cognition Labs to Bring Devin to Developers
Devin will help engineers tackle complex tasks such as code migration and modernization projects.
Microsoft Unveils Phi Silica: A Small Language Model for Copilot+ PCs
Phi Silica stands out as the first state-of-the-art SLM to be shipped with Windows, marking a significant milestone in bringing advanced AI capabilities directly to end-users.
Khan Academy and Microsoft to Bring Free AI Teaching Tools to All US K-12 Educators
Microsoft is donating access to Azure AI infrastructure, enabling Khan Academy to offer Khanmigo for Teachers free to all K-12 educators in the country.
Microsoft Introduces Team Copilot and Agent Capabilities at Build 2024
Team Copilot is designed to expand Copilot's role beyond personal assistance, enabling it to work on behalf of a team.
Microsoft Unveils Phi-3-vision and Expands Phi-3 Model Availability on Azure
The Phi-3-vision model is designed to handle tasks such as optical character recognition (OCR), chart analysis, and diagram understanding. It is built to process and reason over real-world images, making it an invaluable tool for developers working with visual data.
Microsoft Unveils Copilot+ PCs: Next Generation AI-Powered Computers
These machines are touted as the fastest and most intelligent Windows PCs ever built, featuring powerful silicon capable of 40+ trillion operations per second (TOPS), all-day battery life, and access to advanced AI models.
Microsoft Deploys Secure, Air-Gapped GPT-4 AI Model for US Intelligence Agencies
The platform is designed to be used on a secure, government-only network, addressing the security concerns that have previously prevented intelligence agencies from adopting AI technology.
Microsoft and OpenAI Invest $2 Million to Promote AI Literacy and Combat Deceptive AI
The Societal Resilience Fund is part of Microsoft and OpenAI's commitment to address challenges in AI literacy and education.
Microsoft to Invest $2.2 Billion in Malaysia's Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Microsoft will also partner with the Malaysian government to establish a national AI Center of Excellence and enhance the nation's cybersecurity capabilities.
Microsoft Releases First Annual Responsible AI Transparency Report
The report highlights the company's efforts to foster transparency, accountability, and trust while navigating the complex landscape of artificial intelligence.
Sanctuary AI and Microsoft Partner to Advance Embodied AI Research
The partnership will leverage Microsoft's Azure infrastructure for AI workloads, aiming to evaluate model performance, efficiency, and planning capabilities.
8 US Newspapers File Suit Against OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
This lawsuit follows a similar complaint filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2022.
Microsoft to Invest $1.7 Billion in Indonesia's AI and Cloud Future
The investment will enable Microsoft to meet the growing demand for cloud computing services in Indonesia and allow the country to harness the economic and productivity opportunities presented by advanced AI technologies.
Microsoft and Alphabet Ride AI Wave to Impressive Q1 Earnings, Meta Stumbles
AI has been a key driver for Microsoft and Alphabet with Microsoft's cloud services, particularly its Azure platform, benefiting from the technology. Alphabet's Google Cloud division also turned a profit for the first time, now accounting for over 10% of the company's overall revenue.
Microsoft Launches Phi-3 Mini: A Lightweight AI Model Packing a Punch
By quantizing the model to 4-bits, researchers were able to reduce its memory footprint to just 1.8GB. This allowed them to deploy the model on an iPhone 14 with an A16 Bionic chip, running natively on-device and fully offline.
Cognizant and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Drive Generative AI Adoption
As part of the partnership, Cognizant has invested in 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats for its associates, along with 500 Sales Copilot and 500 Services Copilot seats.
Microsoft's VASA can Create a Realistic Talking Head Video from a Single Photo
VASA demonstrates superior performance compared to existing methods, delivering high-quality video frames with precise lip-audio synchronization and a diverse array of lifelike facial dynamics.
Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE's G42
The deal is backed by an unprecedented Intergovernmental Assurance Agreement, ensuring the secure and responsible deployment of AI in close coordination with the UAE and U.S. governments.
Microsoft Invests $2.9 Billion in Japan to Boost AI and Compute Infrastructure
Microsoft has pledged to empower 3 million full-time and part-time workers in Japan over the next three years through AI skilling initiatives.
Microsoft Announces New AI Hub in London
The establishment of the London hub comes on the heels of Microsoft's £2.5 billion investment in upskilling the U.K. workforce for the AI era and building the necessary infrastructure to power the AI economy.
Cohere's Command R+ Debuts on Microsoft Azure
Deploying Cohere models through Microsoft's Models as a Service (MaaS) offering streamlines the process, allowing businesses to harness the power of Command R+ without the complexity of managing underlying infrastructure.
Microsoft Announces New Tools to Enhance Security and Trust in Generative AI Applications
These tools aim to address AI quality and safety challenges by detecting and blocking prompt injection attacks, identifying hallucinations, and providing safety evaluations.
Microsoft and OpenAI Plan $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer
This audacious vision underscores the transformative potential of AI and the lengths tech giants are willing to go to secure their place at the forefront of this revolution.