It takes two simple letters to accurately convey the big changes in tech this year:Me too.However, beyond these lists are the complex, ever-evolving, and exciting ways we work, communicate, and collaborate. As you'll see, AI is a common thread when we start Microsoft Build,Our annual flagship event for developers.
It has been a landmark year for the industry since January, when we announced the extension of our partnership with OpenAI to accelerate breakthroughs in AI and ensure those benefits are widely available around the world. In February, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser that will transform the world's largest software category -- search.
Since then, development has accelerated rapidly, with several key milestones along the way, including:
- Higher availability, includingAzure Open AIAdded support for the groundbreaking GPT-4 ChatGPT and OpenAI models.
- Second pilotAvailable to a wide range of users, including Dynamics 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Copilot for Power Platform.
- New Bing extension powered by artificial intelligenceto the taskbar of Windows 11, Mobile, and Skype; Bing Image Creator for chat; and the platform is fully open for preview, so there's no waiting.
This is just the beginning of a new era of artificial intelligence. that's whymicrosoft compileis so important. At this event, we'll show how AI is redefining what and how programmers create, and how AI is changing the way work will be done in the future.
Before we get into the news, let's talk about two concepts we discussed in detail during Microsoft Build:second pilotIplug.
Copilot is an application that uses modern artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 to help people complete complex tasks. Microsoft first introduced the concept of co-pilot almost two years ago with GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered developer that helps developers write code, and we continue to offer co-pilot in many core areas of our business.
We believe Copilot represents both a new paradigm for AI software and a profound change in the way software is developed—from imagining new product scenarios, to user experience, architecture, the services they use, and a safety and security mindset. Safety.
Plugins are tools first introduced for ChatGPT and more recently Bing that extend the capabilities of AI systems by allowing them to interact with application programming interfaces (APIs) from other software and services to retrieve real-time information, incorporate corporate data and other business data, Perform new types of calculations and act securely on your behalf. Think of the plug as the link between your co-pilot and the rest of the digital world.
With that being said, let's focus on the news and announcements we're bringing you during Microsoft Build.
Growth of the AI plugin ecosystem
Microsoft isannouncementWe will adopt the same open plug-in standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability between ChatGPT and Microsoft's broad co-pilot offering.
Developers can now useoneA platform for building plugins for consumer and enterprise interfaces, including ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
If you want to create your own plugin and use it with your AI application based on Azure OpenAI Service, it will use the same plugin standard by default. This means that developers can create experiences that allow users to interact with their applications using the most natural user interface (human language).
In this general plugin platform,Bing adds support for plugins.In addition to the previously announced OpenTable and Wolfram Alpha plugins, there are Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin and Zillow in the Bing ecosystem, among others.
In addition to the general plugin platform, Microsoft also announced that Bing will appear in ChatGPT as the default search engine. ChatGPT will now have a built-in world-class search engine that will provide more up-to-date answers through web access. Replies are now based on search and web data and include quotes so users can learn more directly from chat. Starting today, the new feature is available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, and free users just need to enable the plugin to use it.
Developers can now extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with plugins
they tooannouncementDevelopers can now use plugins to integrate their applications and services with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Add-ins for Microsoft 365 Copilot include ChatGPT and Bing add-ons, as well as Teams messaging extensions and Power Platform connectors — allowing developers to leverage their existing investments. Developers will be able to easily create new plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot using the Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Developers can also extend Microsoft 365 Copilot by bringing data into the Microsoft Graph, linking relevant and useful information with the recently announcedCopilot's Semantic Index.
More than 50 add-ons from partners including Atlassian, Adobe, ServiceNow, Thomson Reuters, Moveworks, and Mural will be made available to customers as part of the early access program, with thousands more coming through general availability for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
New Azure AI tools help developers build and deploy their own next-generation AI applications
It starts with our new productAzure AI Studio.used to bemake it easyIntegrate external data sources with Azure OpenAI services. Additionally, we are pleased to introduceAzure Machine Learning prompt flowMake it easier for developers to build hints while leveraging popular open source hint orchestration solutions such as Semantic Kernel.
WAzure Open AICombining advanced models including ChatGPT and GPT-4 with the power of Azure for Enterprise, we announcerenewEnables developers to implement state-of-the-art AI models using their own data; provisioned bandwidth SKUs that provide dedicated capacity; and plugins that simplify the integration of other external data sources with customers using the Azure OpenAI service. We currently have over 4,500 customers using the Azure OpenAI service.
Building together responsibly
At Microsoft, we are committed to developing AI technologies that have a positive impact and earn trust, while sharing our own experiences and creating new tools and innovations that help developers and companies implement responsible artificial intelligence in their own jobs and organizations Smart practice. We're rolling out several new updates in Build, includingAzure AI Content Security,New Azure AI serviceHelping businesses create safer online environments and communities. As part of Microsoft's commitment to building responsible AI systems, Azure AI Content Security will be integrated into Microsoft products, including Azure OpenAI service and Azure Machine Learning.
We also introduced new tools for Azure Machine Learning, including the extensionAI dashboards that process textual and graphical data,In preview, allows users to evaluate large models built from unstructured data during the model building, training and/or evaluation phases. This helps users identify model errors, reliability issues, and interpret models before deploying them, resulting in more efficient and fair models for computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). andInstant traffic, a preview release, coming soon to preview, provides a simplified experience for prompting, evaluating, and tuning large language models. Users can quickly create express workflows that connect to various language models and data sources, and evaluate the quality of their workflowsGrounding and other measurementsChoose the best tip for their use case.Prompt flow also integrates with Azure AI Content Safety to help users detect and remove harmful content directly in their workflow.
Additionally, Microsoft announcedOrigin of new mediaIn the coming months, Microsoft Designer and Bing Image Creator will allow users to check whether an image or video was generated by artificial intelligence. The technology uses cryptographic methods to tag and sign AI-generated content with metadata about its origin.
introduce Microsoft Fabric, the new unified analytics platform
Today's world is awash with data, constantly flowing from the devices we use, the apps we create, and our interactions. And now, as we enter a new era defined by AI, that data is even more important. Organization-specific Power AI experiences require a constant supply of clean data from well-managed and highly integrated analytics systems. However, most organizations' analytics systems are a maze of specialized and unrelated services.
Microsoft Fabricis a unified analytics platform that includes data engineering, data integration, data warehousing, data analytics, real-time analytics, application observability, and business analytics, all connected to a single data repository called OneLake.
It enables clients of all skill levels to take advantage of opportunities in one unified environment. Combined with Azure OpenAI services at every layer, it helps customers unleash the full potential of their data and enables developers to harness the generative power of AI to gain insight into their data.
ZCopilot for Microsoft FabricIn any data experience, customers can use the conversational language to create data flows and pipelines, generate code and entire functions, build machine learning models, or visualize results. Customers can even build their own conversational locales that combine Azure OpenAI service models with their data and publish them as plugins.
Accelerating an AI-driven future with partners
Our customers benefit from working with partners like NVIDIA, which enables organizations to design, develop, deploy, and manage applications with the scale and security of Azure. NVIDIA will accelerate enterprise-ready generative AI through the integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise with Azure Machine Learning. Available only on Azure, Omniverse Cloud enables organizations to aggregate data into a large number of high-performance models, combine their domain-specific software tools, and enable real-time multi-user collaboration at factory locations. NVIDIA GPUs using the ONNX runtime and the Olive toolchain will support the implementation of accelerated AI models without requiring deeper hardware knowledge.
New Possibilities with Microsoft Dev Box
Microsoft Dev Box is an Azure service that gives developers access to preconfigured and centrally managed code-ready, project-specific development appliances,introduce some new possibilitiesto enhance the developer experience and increase productivity. During the preview period, we saw many customers trial Dev Box and internally migrate over 9,000 developers to the service for daily development.
Now we've added additional features and functionality, includingCustomization using configuration as codeand newBeginner Developer ImageIn Azure Marketplace, it provides development teams with ready-to-use images that can be further customized to meet the specific needs of the development team. Additionally, developers can now manage custom environmentsProfessional Portal for Developers, Azure Deployment Environment. The general availability of the Dev Box will begin in July.
Introducing a new developer homepage on Windows 11 with Dev Home
Developer HomeIt will be available in Microsoft Build Preview as a new Windows experience that developers can download from the Microsoft Store.
Dev Home makes it easy to connect to GitHub and set up cloud development environments such as Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces. Dev Home is open source and fully extensible, allowing developers to enhance their experience with customizable dashboards and the tools they need to succeed.
Introducing Windows Copilot for Windows 11
When he launched Windows and Surface devices last fall, the CTO set out to reinvent how people get work done on Windows.
which brings us toThe second Windows system pilot.
Windows will be the first PC platform with centralized AI supportThe second Windows system pilot.With Bing Chat and third-party and third-party plug-ins, users can focus on implementing their ideas, executing complex projects and collaborating instead of wasting energy searching, launching and working across multiple applications.
This builds on the Windows 11 integration we launched in February, which brought the new AI-powered Bing to the taskbar.
The Windows Copilot preview will begin rolling out in Windows 11 in June.
As you can see, this is going to be a busy time at Microsoft Build. Gives you an idea of the developer experienceevent, we expect approximately 200,000 registered attendees, 350 sessions and over 125 hours of content over two days. In total we will be announcing over 50 new products and features.
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