Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Team Copilot and Internal CPU at Build Conference

Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Team Copilot and Internal CPU at Build Conference

Microsoft Corp. has introduced Team Copilot, a new version of its Copilot assistant focused on improving group collaboration using artificial intelligence. This meeting assistant can take notes, summarize key points, and track deadlines, targeting corporate customers and set to be available later this year. This announcement was made at Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build. Microsoft … Read more

Book of News for Microsoft Build 2024

Book of News for Microsoft Build 2024

Microsoft Build is Microsoft’s annual developer event where they make major announcements and this year’s Newsbook contains around 60 updates. These announcements cover a range of topics from new AI features for Windows to expanding Microsoft Copilot and introducing new developer tools and cloud solutions. The event has 200,000 registered participants, with 4,000 expected to … Read more

Cosmos DB for NoSQL Introduces Vector Search at Microsoft Build 2024

Cosmos DB for NoSQL Introduces Vector Search at Microsoft Build 2024

Microsoft unveiled several updates to its database offerings during the Build 2024 conference. One major update is the addition of vector search to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, a non-relational database service within the Azure Cosmos DB database offering. Non-SQL databases eliminate SQL limitations for improved speed, flexibility, and scalability. Azure Cosmos DB supports various … Read more

Cloud Infrastructure Updates in Microsoft Build 2024: Introducing Cobalt 100-Based VMs and Copilot Access in Azure

Cloud Infrastructure Updates in Microsoft Build 2024: Introducing Cobalt 100-Based VMs and Copilot Access in Azure

Microsoft Teams’ customer conversation platform, IC3, is implementing Cobalt to better serve its expanding customer base. This move is expected to result in up to a 45% improvement in performance on Cobalt 100 virtual machines. Alongside this, Microsoft has introduced AMD’s ND MI300X series of processors for its Azure virtual machines. The ND MI300X virtual … Read more

Breaking News at Microsoft Build 2024: AI, Copilots, Data and Security Updates

Breaking News at Microsoft Build 2024: AI, Copilots, Data and Security Updates

Microsoft recently unveiled some of the most exciting updates from its Build 2024 event, including Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Team Copilot, and Defender for Cloud. These updates aim to expand the company’s presence in the emerging GenAI market by giving developers more access and control in creating copilots, chatbots, and workflow automations. Build 2024, which … Read more

Expectations for Microsoft Build 2024: Surface, Copilot, and the new AI Explorer from Google

Expectations for Microsoft Build 2024: Surface, Copilot, and the new AI Explorer from Google

Microsoft is gearing up for its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, which will showcase new Surface devices and Copilot AI features that could rival Apple and OpenAI. The conference comes on the heels of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and Google’s Google I/O, both of which focused on AI features and advancements. Microsoft’s focus on local … Read more

Lessons from the field: Why you need a platform engineering practice (…and how to build it)

Lessons from the field: Why you need a platform engineering practice (…and how to build it)

Platform engineering is a sociotechnical discipline that has gained tremendous attention in the last year in response to the need for organizations to accelerate cloud native app development and management. Platform engineering focuses on the internal application of development and the creation of so-called ‘Golden Pathways’ in engineering and development, saving time and creating more … Read more

VMware teams with Nvidia to allow companies to build private generative AI tools

VMware teams with Nvidia to allow companies to build private generative AI tools

Sundry Photography Ahead of its second-quarter results, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) teamed up with VMware (NYSE:VMW) on Tuesday to allow companies to build their own generative artificial intelligence tools on their own servers. The deal, announced at the VMware Explore conference, is an expansion of a previous strategic partnership and allows company’s that use VMware’s (VMW) cloud … Read more