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🚧 Microsoft is in BUILD mode
🤑 AI Fundraising News
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🤖 Top AI News
🚧 Microsoft is in Build mode
Wow. Big day in the office for Microsoft.
Yesterday was Day 1 of their 3-day Build Conference, and suffice it to say, they came out swinging.
Some huge updates to get to - here’s the tea 🍵.
🔌 Bing Plugins
If you say plugins 3 times, it will bring you good luck 🍀
Microsoft and OpenAI are now jointly committed to supporting and growing the AI plugin ecosystem by embracing interoperability across ChatGPT and the breadth of Microsoft’s copilot offerings.
What does this mean? Plugins are everything, everywhere, all at once.
Builders - you now have the ability to create your own plugins and deploy them across the Microsoft ecosystem.
Pre-installed plugins are also still available, including the following:
Once you build a plugin, you can use them across the entire MS ecosystem:
ChatGPT
Bing Chat
Dynamics 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Windows Copilot (continue reading 👀 )
🤝 Bing x ChatGPT
This one’s short and sweet.
Starting today, ChatGPT users will get real-time, up-to-date answers from the web, powered by your favorite browser, ✨Bing✨.
The best part? This is available to all users. Yes, all. AKA you don’t have to pay. AKA thank you, Lord.
🧑✈️ Copilot Announcements
Copilot in Windows:
Windows becomes the first ever PC platform to introduce a centralized AI assistant - the Windows Copilot.
The Copilot will live in your taskbar, helping you personalize and navigate through your own PC, making “every user a power user.”
It will allow you to:
summarize, rewrite, and explain text
adjust your computer’s settings - really anything to improve workflow
copy/paste, use Snap Assist, Snipping Tool, personalization, etc.
really anything you want.
CoPilot will be available in preview from June.
Copilot in Power BI
With Copilot in Power BI, users can
create and tailor reports in seconds
generate and edit DAX calculations
create narrative summaries
ask questions about their data
all in conversational language.
With the ability to easily tailor the tone, scope, and style of narratives and add them seamlessly within reports, Power BI can also deliver data insights to even more people through easy-to-understand text summaries.
Being a PowerBI power user, I can’t wait to start exploring these capabilities.
BYOC (Build your own Copilot)
Through Azure AI studio, developers will now be able to build their own AI Copilot using GPT-4.
Why’s this important? It means that developers can now more easily build conversational AI models on their private data.
Read more about it here.
👋 Introducing Dev Home
No more slow setups. Dev Home, available with Windows 11, optimizes for developers and makes it easy to get their device code-ready:
WinGet configuration for easier and faster setup, reducing setup times from days to hours.
Dev Drive for enhanced filesystem performance.
Customizable dashboard to track all your workflows and tasks.
It even allows for quick access to GitHub, easily installing the tools and packages you need.
Dev Home can also configure your coding environments in the cloud using Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces.
Read more about it here.
Other announcements
Learn AI with Microsoft Learn - Microsoft Learn is launching a variety of training and documentation to help people get skilled up and power AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud. After seeing all these updates… I think I may need it.
Foundation Model support - Support for foundation models is now in preview, providing native capabilities to fine-tune and deploy foundation models from multiple open-source repositories using Azure Machine Learning components and pipelines.
Microsoft Launches Fabric - MS Fabric is an end-to-end data analytics platform allowing users to use no-code tools to get a better and deeper understanding of their data in real time. Think Data Analytics on steroids.
Ok - that was a LOT. Let us know which features you are most excited about!
Read more: MS Book of News | MS Blog
🤑 AI Fundraising News
Anthropic raises $450M Series C to build next-gen AI assistants
Gan.ai Raises $5.25M in Seed Funding to expand its generative AI video platform, which allows brands to customize videos for their customers using AI.
🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries
Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.
Artifact now lets you mark articles as clickbait [The Verge] - Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app, Artifact, has introduced a new feature that allows users to flag clickbait-y articles. The app will then monitor the most reported articles and decide what action to take, such as reducing distribution or modifying a headline. (Read more)
Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI [TechCrunch] - Google launches Product Studio, allowing merchants to create product imagery for free using generative AI. The tool can also be used to remove backgrounds or improve the quality of small or low-resolution images. (Read more)
🐦️ Tweet of the day
A meme that isn’t AI related because yesterday was crazy 😂
Seeing blue everywhere
— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew)
May 23, 2023
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