Microsoft has scaled back its plans for a new Windows feature called Recall. Originally, Recall was supposed to be automatically activated and record user activity in the background to make it usable for AI applications. After heavy criticism from privacy advocates and security researchers, Recall is now optional. New security measures have also been introduced … Read more
Microsoft is discontinuing GPT Builder for consumers just three months after its launch. The company does not believe it is economically viable to continue developing the service. Users have until July 14 to back up their data, after which all GPTs and associated information will be deleted.
With its new Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft wants to usher in an era in which generative AI is processed directly on the device rather than in the cloud. These PCs have special hardware (Neural Processing Units, NPUs) to run AI processes locally. The first Copilot+ laptops, developed in collaboration with companies such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm … Read more
Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Mini, its smallest AI model to date, which can compete with models such as GPT-3.5 despite its small size, making it ideal for companies with smaller data sets and limited budgets.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can make human portraits sing and talk. It only needs a still image and an audio file with speech to generate moving lips, matching facial expressions and head movements. Microsoft emphasizes that this is a research demonstration only, with no plans to bring it to market.
Intel confirms that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant will soon run locally on PCs powered by its chips. Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, due out at the end of the year, are expected to deliver three times the AI performance of current Meteor Lake chips, meeting the needs of the next generation of AI PCs.
Microsoft is upgrading the Copilot AI assistant for Microsoft 365, which includes faster and more comprehensive responses through GPT-4 Turbo, the removal of chat limits, increased file uploads and, starting in May, 100 daily boosts for faster image creation in the Designer tool. Source: VentureBeat
Microsoft has introduced new Azure tools to help developers improve the security and reliability of AI tools. These include “Prompt Shields” to protect against prompt injection attacks, pre-built templates for security-oriented system messages, “Groundedness Detection” to detect hallucinations in text output, and real-time monitoring to supervise input and output in production environments.
Microsoft’s partner OpenAI already offers the ability to create variants of chatbots for specific purposes (“GPTs“). A similar feature is now available to all Copilot Pro users, as VentureBeat reports.
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