7 posts tagged ‘Microsoft Ignite 2023’
Microsoft Ignite 2023: Copilot AI expansions, custom chips and all the other announcements
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Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event came with a lot of updates, and AI product reveals and expansions were front and center as the company laid out its updated vision for IT professionals. As our own Devin Coldewey wrote in October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that the company is all-in on AI, and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft brings Copilot to Windows 10
Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot experience, is heading to Windows 10 in preview Starting with Windows 10 version 22H2, which will be available soon to users participating in Microsoft’s Windows Insider program, Windows 10 will gain more or less the same Copilot capabilities as Windows 11. Users will be able to ask Copilot questions and for […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft Teams gets an AI-powered home decorator
At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced a slew of interesting updates for Teams, its Slack-like collaboration and messaging service. Among the dozens of updates here, some of the highlights are the initial rollout of voice isolation, an AI-driven noise reduction feature that can not just reduce repetitive noise in the background but also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bing Chat is now Copilot
Everything’s coming up Copilot — including Bing. Today at Ignite, Microsoft renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot in Bing. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise, has also been rebranded to Copilot. Why the name changes? Not to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft now has a Copilot for (almost) everything
Copilot, Microsoft’s brand of generative AI technologies, promises to be a big moneymaker for the company, with one analyst predicting that it could generate $10 billion in annualized revenue by 2026. Despite a staggered and somewhat confusing rollout, 40% of companies in the Fortune 100 were testing Copilot by fall, according to Microsoft CEO Satya […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft launches a deepfakes creator
One of the more unexpected products to launch out of this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person didn’t necessarily say. Called Azure AI Speech text to speech avatar, the new feature, available in public preview as […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft looks to free itself from GPU shackles by designing custom AI chips
Most companies developing AI models, particularly generative AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-4 Turbo and Stable Diffusion, rely heavily on GPUs. GPUs’ ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to training — and running — today’s most capable AI. But there simply aren’t enough GPUs to go around. Nvidia’s best-performing AI cards are reportedly […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.