On May 23, Microsoft held a global developer conference, which is Microsoft's annual flagship event for developers。Microsoft announced more than 50 new products and new features at the event, and the whole conference is closely related to one theme, that is, AI。

Heavy release "intelligent co-driver" Copilot, will be fully connected to Windows 11

At the conference, Microsoft launched its AI product - Copilot。Copilot plays a role similar to an AI assistant in Windows 11, which is officially called "smart co-driver."。Officials also claim that Copilot enables human-computer interaction based on natural language understanding and generation through the Large Language Model (LLM) and helps users complete a variety of complex tasks.。

As a "smart co-driver," Copilot can float on different applications and windows in the form of a sidebar, allowing users to complete searches and complex operations in the form of natural language conversations at any time.。A preview of the feature will be available on Windows 11 starting in June.。

Copilot will target product services such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform。Copilot will work with Microsoft 365 in two ways。One is embedded in Microsoft 365 apps - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more。The second is in Business Chat, which is available for LLM, Microsoft 365 applications, as well as calendars, emails, chats, documents, meetings, contacts, and more.。

Jared Spataro, vice president of Microsoft Modern Work and Business Applications, said: "Copilot combines the power of large language models with users" data and applications to turn words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.。"Copilot marks a new era of computing that will fundamentally change the way we work."。"

Copilot will also support Plugin functionality。According to the official introduction, the "plug-in" will introduce real-time information or business data from other software services through the API interface, adding new computing power to the AI system, so as to provide users with rich, efficient and accurate generative intelligent services.。

It is worth noting that Microsoft will adopt the same open plug-in standard as OpenAI's ChatGPT, which means that plug-ins developed by users using either platform are available for both ChatGPT and Microsoft's Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 Copilot and other services.。

According to the official website, the first supported plug-ins include ChatGPT, Teams information extension, Power Platform connector, etc.。According to Microsoft, more than 50 plug-ins from Atlassian, Adobe, ServiceNow, Thomson Reuters, Moveworks, Mural and other partners will be available during the beta period, and thousands of plug-ins will be available when Microsoft 365 Copilot is officially released.。In addition to Windows, Microsoft's browser, Microsoft Edge, will also support Microsoft 365 Copilot.。

 

Azure AI upgrade, Microsoft Fabric fully integrated into Azure OpenAI

As Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Azure also launched a series of AI development tools and features.。Includes Azure AI Studio for easy integration of external data sources into Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Content Safety for intelligent review of text and images, new Azure Machine Learning tools for evaluating large models, and more。

Building on Microsoft's deep collaboration with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI Enterprise Services brings together large models such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, as well as Azure's enterprise services。More than 4500 enterprise users have adopted Azure OpenAI enterprise services。

In addition, the newly released Microsoft Fabric will build a unified, one-stop analytics platform that integrates data engineering, data consolidation, data storage, data science, real-time analytics, application observability, and business intelligence services, all connected to a single data warehouse called OneLake.。Microsoft Fabric will also be fully integrated into Azure OpenAI services, and Copilot will be available for every data-related operation。

ChatGPT built-in search engine is now available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers

Bing (Bing) announced three important updates on its blog: Bing will become the built-in search engine of ChatGPT, build a unified AI plug-in platform with OpenAI, and expand the widespread use of Bing chatbots in Microsoft's Copilot product line.。

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, said Bing will serve as ChatGPT's default built-in search engine, providing users with the latest real-time answers via web access.。Bing Search will be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers from now on and will be available to free users soon。

At the same time, Bing is also supporting more plug-ins。In addition to the previously announced Open Table (restaurant booking) and Wolfram Alpha (professional data search engine) plugins, there are now new additions to the Bing ecosystem such as Expedia (travel-related), In stacart (shopping-related), Kayak (travel-related), Klarna (price comparison-related), Redfin (real estate transaction-related) and Zillow (linking more than 5,000 apps).。

Microsoft and OpenAI deep binding, Bill Gates said AI will change user habits, Google and Amazon or abandoned

This developer conference can be seen, OpenAI has been deeply bound with Microsoft。Whether Bing becomes ChatGPT's built-in search engine or Copilot uses the same plug-in standards as ChatGPT, all demonstrate the close cooperation between the two companies.。

OpenAI started out as a non-profit open source technology organization, running on donated funds, but because AI is a "money-burning" business, OpenAI reorganized into a limited profit organization in 2019 and began to introduce strategic investments.。Microsoft immediately announced a $1 billion investment to become a strategic shareholder of OpenAI。Microsoft not only introduced OpenAI AI training to its own cloud service platform, but also made a number of additional investments.。This year's ChatGPT turned out to be a credit to Microsoft。

Microsoft's big investment in start-ups may be tied to the strategic vision of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates。Recently, Bill Gates attended an event in San Francisco, and put forward the latest views on the development of AI field。

On May 22, at the "AI Forward 2023" event hosted by Goldman Sachs and SV Angel, Bill Gates emphasized that the development of AI assistants is important to win the future technology competition, and AI assistants will fundamentally change users' habits. He believes: "In the future, we will no longer use search engines and shopping sites, such as Google and Amazon.。"

Bill Gates also said it could be big companies or start-ups that win the AI race in the future.。He was impressed by the AI startup Exposure AI co-founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Deep Mind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, among others.。He said: "I would be disappointed if Microsoft did not participate in the (AI assistant) competition.。"

 

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