Microsoft raises prices when it bundles Office features into Microsoft 365
Microsoft’s Copilot is planning to launch its AI-powered Assistant in Office 365 by the end of the year. The company will make it available on subscription plans starting from $99 (around 8,100) for existing subscribers and from $149 (around 10,000) for new subscribers. The Assistant will be integrated with Microsoft’s Office apps likeWord, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
Microsoft’s copilot artificial intelligence has a voice, vision, and a “hype man” persona
Microsoft has launched ‘Copilot Vision’, a feature that allows users to use Copilot’s artificial intelligence (AI) to see and explore their content while they’re away from their devices. Copilot Vision is currently available for a select group of Copilot Pro subscribers in the US. The feature works with websites that are restricted by Microsoft so it doesn’t work on paywalled and sensitive content.
Microsoft’s new playground for businesses is called Copilot Pages
Microsoft has announced that its Copilot AI-powered assistant is being integrated with the excel spreadsheet software to create a new work hub for users called Copilot Pages. Users can share Copilot Pages with other people and they’ll be able to start editing them immediately like they would a Word document. The integration of Copilot and Python in the code of excel is a public preview.
Microsoft aims to win over developers who use artificial intelligence
Microsoft has revealed it’s building a ‘Copilot runtime’ that can be used to integrate AI-based features into its apps like Studio Effects, filters and portrait blur. The runtime also includes a library of APIs that developers can use to tap into for their own apps. Microsoft also announced a new feature to automatically translate videos from sites like YouTube.
How does the Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?
Microsoft has claimed that its “Copilot Plus PCs” will be “58 percent faster” than an “M3 MacBook Air”. The Copilot Plus PC’s neural processing unit can perform 45 trillion operations per second. The machine learning-enabled Surface Laptop 7 is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus chip and has a 20-hour battery life, compared to 13 hours on an M3 MacBook Air.
What is the next step in the advancement of artificial intelligence?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company has over 20 million customers for its generative AI tool Copilot and 60% of Fortune 500 companies are using it. He further said that 65% of companies are using Microsoft Azure Cloud service that enables them to access generative AI software from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
The new name for the artificial intelligence is: “Gemini”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said the Gemini AI model is one of the elements which sets it apart from the guts of ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. “As mobile came in and user interaction changed, we adapted to it,” Pichai said. He added that Google has always approached search with a multimodal approach and Gemini will continue to do so.
Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings Office features to other people
Microsoft has said that its AI-powered collaboration platform Copilot will be available for consumers soon. The platform, launched in November 2017, will offer access to Copilot’s latest models as a subscription. It will be able to create PowerPoint decks with a Word document, and users will be able to summarize meetings they never attended or arrived late.
The hardware event had everything that Microsoft had to announce:Surface Laptop Studio2,Surface Laptop Go 3, and Copilot in Windows
Microsoft has announced that its voice-based assistant, Copilot, will be available on Windows X later this month. The feature will allow users to control aspects of thedesktop experience with voice or text commands. Copilot will be available on the Windows desktop, as a stand-alone app and also within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge.
Code Llama is Meta’s own artificial intelligence code-writing tool
Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 language model, to generate new code and human-written work. It was powered by GPT-4 and can be updated by Meta’s Copilot, which is used to write and check code. “It’s exciting that they’re releasing the weights to the community,” Stanford postdoctoral researcher Deepak Kumar said.