More from Microsoft Build 2024: news and announcements from the developer conference
OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model is now available for businesses to use through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. The model includes multimodal input and output, and Microsoft has demonstrated new ways developers can leverage this model for conversational AI in their apps.
Microsoft mentioned yesterday that in addition to all the Snapdragon-powered PCs announced, we would also see those AI PC experiences ship in computers powered by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia as well. Now Nvidia suggests it won’t be a long wait:
In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving gamers, creators, enthusiasts and developers increased performance to tackle demanding local AI workloads, along with Microsoft’s new Copilot+ features.
Microsoft is now allowing businesses to preview its new Arm-based Cobalt CPU on Azure virtual machines. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced onstage at Build that the preview opens today, and these chips should include some performance increases for cloud workloads.
Lots of applause from the developers in the audience at Microsoft Build for the company’s new Windows Copilot Runtime. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likens this to a big moment like Win32, allowing developers to more easily build AI into their Windows apps.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:
1) Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers?
2) In a world where we have ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on all that information?
Nadella is positioning this wave of AI as the answer to Microsoft’s dreams.
Fluid Framework 2.0 lets multiple people work together in Microsoft’s Notion-like Loop workspaces and turns Office document items like charts, tables, and lists into “Lego pieces” that can be edited in real time from any app.
Starting today, outside developers are getting preview access to the technology that gave Microsoft 365 apps a Google Workspace-like boost, stretching those abilities for collaboration even further.
[Microsoft Build]
