Microsoft wrapped up its annual developer conference, Build 2024, by presenting Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite/Plus CPUs.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, said that technology should not be celebrated in and of itself but rather used to make people’s lives better.
During the conference, Microsoft unveiled new solutions, various new features for their current products, and more.
A few of the announcements are as follows:
- AI Speech from Microsoft Azure to improve voice-activated apps.
- AI Studio on Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive analytics data platform.
- Phi-3-Vision
- OpenAI Service on Azure
- AI Search on Microsoft Azure
- The Microsoft Team Meeting application
- Windows 11’s File Explorer
- Snapdragon Dev Kit
- Extensions for GitHub Copilot
Microsoft is expanding the range of its products and services with artificial intelligence (AI) agents. AI agents can now be employed in the same way as virtual employees; they can assist with employee onboarding, handle automated tasks, and monitor correspondence. Later this year, the Copilot Studio will offer these functionalities.
The Windows clipboard will soon have generative AI capabilities driven by OpenAI models, while the Microsoft Team meeting software will soon allow users to design and share personalized emojis. Through the PowerToys, it will also get enhanced copy and past capabilities, enabling users to directly summarise, translate, rewrite, and even produce code depending on the context.
Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting an additional feature. Soon, Explorer users will be able to monitor projects and even integrate it with GitHub’s repository. Additionally, native support for the TAR and 7-zip compression formats will be included.
Additionally, Microsoft unveiled the $899 Snapdragon Dev Kit, a tiny PC with a Snapdragon X Elite processor. 32 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage are included. It is designed for developers to create and test native ARM64 apps for Windows 11 and has a Mac Mini-like appearance.
Some developer-focused announcements were also announced by Microsoft, including GitHub Copilot extensions, which include GitHub Copilot for Azure. GitHub Copilot users may now configure it with third-party services like Sentry and Docker. In a similar vein, users may swiftly deploy Azure using natural language by utilizing GitHub Copilot for Azure.
With Azure AI Content Safety, Microsoft is adding more than 90 capabilities and 20 responsible AI tools to Azure AI, and Azure AI Studio is now free for all users. OpenAI’s most recent flagship model, GPT-4o, is now available to developers as an API and through Azure AI Studio.
With the addition of a new Azure virtual machine running on Microsoft-developed hardware, Microsoft has become the first cloud provider to incorporate AMD’s flexible MI300x AI accelerator chip, which has been tuned for GPT-4.
In a similar vein, Microsoft recently debuted Phi-3-vision, a multimodal AI model with text and image processing capabilities. It is claimed that this is a small language model (SLM) that runs natively on portable computers with a dedicated NPU.
Additionally, the business is enhancing the intelligence of its Edge web browser by adding real-time YouTube video translation.
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