In today’s Microsoft Build 2024 keynote, CEO Satya Nadella announced a range of exciting new AI capabilities and partnerships. Here are some of the key highlights:
Azure AI Infrastructure Scales with New Hardware Partnerships
Azure AI infrastructure continues to scale rapidly, with 30x more supercomputing power added in the last 6 months. New partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD are bringing cutting-edge AI hardware to Azure.
Azure OpenAI Service Offers GPT-4o, OpenAI’s Latest Multimodal Model
Azure OpenAI Service now offers GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest multimodal model that accepts text, audio, image and video as input/output. GPT-4o is available for testing today and is generally available on Azure AI.
Microsoft Expands Phi Family of Small Language Models
New members are being added to Microsoft’s Phi family of small language models, including Phi-3 Vision and larger Phi-3 models up to 14B parameters. A partnership with Khan Academy will use Phi-3 to make math tutoring more accessible.
Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available
Azure AI Studio is now generally available, providing an end-to-end environment to build, train and fine-tune AI models responsibly with built-in safety tooling.
Microsoft Fabric Introduces Real-Time Intelligence Capabilities
Microsoft Fabric is introducing real-time intelligence capabilities to draw actionable insights from streaming event data across the data estate.
GitHub Copilot Expands with Extensions and Azure Integration
GitHub Copilot is expanding with new Copilot Extensions that can pull in context from third-party services. Copilot for Azure allows deploying to Azure via natural language.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Extends with Team Copilot and Copilot Studio
Microsoft 365 Copilot is being extended with Team Copilot – an AI assistant for collaborative work in Teams, Loop, Planner, etc. Copilot Studio allows customizing Copilots for specific business processes.
The keynote showcased how Microsoft’s AI innovations are empowering developers, businesses, and users in transformative ways – from coding assistance in GitHub Copilot to AI-powered business process automation with Copilot Studio. Microsoft continues to thoughtfully push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
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