Highlights from MSBuild 2024: Introduction of Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, and GPT-4o on Azure AI

Highlights from MSBuild 2024: Introduction of Copilot AI Agents, Phi-3, and GPT-4o on Azure AI

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 … Read more

Intel Speeds Up Microsoft’s Newest PHI-3 AI Models

Intel Speeds Up Microsoft’s Newest PHI-3 AI Models

Intel and Microsoft have joined forces to support the latest PHI-3 AI models, optimizing them to run efficiently on smaller, low-power devices. This collaboration will utilize Intel’s full range of CPUs and GPUs, including their new Gaudi AI accelerators and Arc series GPUs, to enhance AI computing in personalized AI and low-power devices. By leveraging … Read more

6 Practical Applications of Microsoft’s Latest Phi-3 Vision-Language Model in the Real World

6 Practical Applications of Microsoft’s Latest Phi-3 Vision-Language Model in the Real World

Microsoft’s latest release, Phi-3, introduces Phi-3-Vision-128k-instruct, a language model variant that has garnered attention for its impressive performance. This model, with 4 billion parameters, has shown superiority over GPT-4V and Gemini 1.0 Pro V in various benchmarks. This article delves into potential use cases for Phi-3-Vision-128k-instruct, showcasing its versatility in tasks such as Optical Character … Read more

Intel Demonstrates Compatibility with Microsoft’s Latest Phi-3 AI Models Across Full Range of CPUs and GPUs

Intel Demonstrates Compatibility with Microsoft’s Latest Phi-3 AI Models Across Full Range of CPUs and GPUs

Intel has announced its support for Microsoft’s Phi-3 AI models across all of its CPU and GPU products. Microsoft’s Phi-3 model aims to elevate custom AI computing to a new level and is compatible with all Blue Team CPU and GPU products. The GenAI models focus on providing efficient capabilities at a smaller scale, catering … Read more

Intel AI Platforms Speed Up Microsoft Phi-3 Generative AI Models

Intel AI Platforms Speed Up Microsoft Phi-3 Generative AI Models

Intel collaborated with Microsoft to integrate support for Phi-3 models into their CPUs, GPUs, and Gaudi accelerators. They also worked together to design the accelerator abstraction in DeepSpeed and extend automatic tensor parallelism support for Phi-3 and other models in Hugging Face. The Phi-3 models are ideal for on-device inference, enabling the development of lightweight … Read more