Microsoft recently made significant announcements at its annual MSBuild developer conference, focusing on updates to its AI capabilities in Azure AI. One major update is the introduction of Copilot AI Agents, including Team Co-pilot, which enhances collaboration within organizations by expanding Copilot’s role from a personal assistant to a team collaborator. This update aims to improve productivity, facilitate meetings, manage tasks, and enhance group communication in tools like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner.
Custom agents can now be created with Microsoft Copilot to automate business processes, reason about user actions, and learn from feedback. This feature aims to increase efficiency and cost savings. Developers can customize and integrate Copilot with specific enterprise systems using Copilot Studio or Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio.
Microsoft also introduced fi-3, a family of small open models that help developers create responsible and cost-effective multimodal generative AI applications. These models, including Phi-3-mini, Phi-3-small, Phi-3-medium, and Phi-3-vision, offer a range of capabilities for various applications. These models are accessible through Azure AI Models-as-a-Service, providing optimized solutions for language, reasoning, and coding tasks.
GPT-4o by OpenAI, a new multimodal model, is now available in Azure AI Studio as an extension of GPT-4. This model allows for a richer user experience by enabling input and output spanning text, images, and more. Azure OpenAI Service Customers can explore the capabilities of GPT-4o in a preview playground at Azure OpenAI Studio, available in two US regions. GPT-4o is designed for speed and efficiency, offering advanced handling of complex queries with minimal resources, resulting in cost savings and improved performance. These updates signify Microsoft’s commitment to enhancing AI capabilities for developers and organizations.
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