Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is set for a major upgrade, according to AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. In an interview with WIRED, Suleyman revealed that Copilot will soon feature a human-like voice, visual capabilities, and improved reasoning skills. The goal is to provide users with a trustworthy AI companion that offers emotional support. New features include …
Microsoft is launching payments to publishers for content appearing in Copilot. The company is introducing a new feature called “Copilot Daily,” which provides users with a spoken summary of weather and current events. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, and The Financial Times have joined as partners for the service, initially …
Microsoft has launched Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google’s AI-powered search offerings. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, the new feature has been rolled out to all US users following a pilot phase in July. Bing Generative Search aggregates information from the web to provide summaries in response to search queries. Users can also dismiss …
Microsoft is pushing forward with the integration of artificial intelligence in Windows. The company has fundamentally redesigned the controversial Recall feature, which creates screenshots of the screen. According to David Weston, Vice President of Enterprise Security at Microsoft, Recall is now an opt-in feature with improved encryption and can be completely uninstalled. For Copilot Plus …
Microsoft has introduced new security features for AI offerings. The company wants to address growing concerns about AI security, privacy, and reliability. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, the “Trustworthy AI” initiative includes confidential inference for Azure OpenAI Services, improved GPU security, and better tools for evaluating AI results. A key feature is the new …
Microsoft is expanding its Office offerings with new AI features. A key innovation is “Copilot Pages”, a platform for collaborative work with AI. Users can work together on AI-generated content and enrich it with data from different sources. Microsoft describes this as an entirely new way of working that brings humans and AI together in …
Microsoft has unveiled a new platform called Windows Agent Arena (WAA) to test AI assistants in realistic Windows environments. This was reported by Michael Nuñez on VentureBeat. WAA offers more than 150 different tasks in common Windows applications and allows for parallel evaluation in the Azure cloud. Microsoft also introduced a new AI agent called …
Microsoft’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, has caused an uproar with his statement that all content available online is “freeware”. This means that from his perspective anyone can copy this content and use it for their own creations, as long as the creators do not explicitly object. This statement is disputed by many experts, and …
Microsoft’s new “MInference” technology promises to significantly increase the processing speed of large language models by reducing the preprocessing time of long texts by up to 90%. An interactive demo on Hugging Face allows developers to test the technology and explore its capabilities.
Microsoft has unveiled Florence-2, a versatile AI model that can handle various image processing tasks with a single, unified approach. Available under an MIT license, the model appears to outperform larger specialized models in areas such as image annotation and object recognition, despite its compact size, and could help companies save on investments in separate …