One after the other, 2024 is flooded with the AI Tech events. AiThority is always at the forefront to cover such events/summits in the form of keynotes. This blog is for another famous tech event hosted by a tech giant- Microsoft. The event covered is Microsoft Build 2024.
We look forward to Microsoft Build every year. There will be 4,000 in-person attendees in Seattle out of around 200,000 registered for the three days of technical study and community connection. Microsoft and our partners have prepared over 300 seminars, demos, and labs that attendees can select from. Those who cannot make it to the live event can still enjoy most of the content later on. Approximately sixty new goods and solutions will be unveiled at the event.
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Keynotes
- A new category of Copilot+ PCs, the fastest, most AI-ready PCs ever built.
- First set of GitHub Copilot Extensions
- Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub new build with AI feature
- Docker Extension for GitHub Copilot
- New Microsoft Fabric workload structure
- In less than a minute, teachers can access creative lesson plans from Khanmigo for Teachers that save time and delight students.
- Paste a permalink, which expands to provide a rich preview from Azure DevOps
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What’s New for Microsoft Build 2024?
- The evolution of Copilot
Copilot has been a game-changer for many people since it was first released. Using modern AI and large language models (LLMs) like Open AI’s GPT-4, copilots across Microsoft products have assisted people with complex tasks, serving as a personal, behind-the-scenes AI assistant. Now, they are introducing Team Copilot, the expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 from a behind-the-scenes, personal AI assistant to a new, valuable member of your team. You will be able to invoke Copilot where you collaborate – in Teams, Loop, Planner and more. Team Copilot can be a meeting facilitator in meetings, managing the agenda, tracking time and taking notes. It can act as a collaborator in chats by surfacing important information, tracking action items and addressing unresolved issues.
- GitHub Copilot experience leans into extensibility
GitHub is introducing the first set of GitHub Copilot extensions, developed by Microsoft and third-party partners, in a private preview. These additions allow developers and organizations to customize their GitHub Copilot experience with their preferred services like Azure, Docker, Sentry, and more directly within GitHub Copilot Chat. GitHub Copilot for Azure, one of the extensions from Microsoft, showcases how building in natural language with a broader range of capabilities can propel development velocity. Using the extension through Copilot Chat, developers can explore and manage Azure resources while troubleshooting issues and locating relevant logs and code.
- New frontier models and multimodal capabilities in Azure AI
GPT-4o, OpenAI’s newest flagship model, is now available in Azure AI Studio and as an API. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, image, and audio processing to set a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences. They also announced that Phi-3-vision, a new multimodal model in the Phi-3 family of AI small language models (SLMs) developed by Microsoft, is now available in Azure. Phi-3 models are powerful, cost-effective, and optimized for personal devices. Phi-3-vision offers the ability to input images and text and receive text responses. For example, users can ask questions about a chart or ask open-ended question about specific images.
- Microsoft, Khan Academy using AI to empower educators
Microsoft and Khan Academy are announcing a multi-faceted partnership to turn the transformative potential of AI into reality. To start, Microsoft is enabling Khan Academy to offer all K-12 U.S. educators free access to Khanmigo for Teachers, an AI-powered teaching assistant that frees up teachers’ time so they can focus on what matters most – engaging with and supporting their students. Microsoft is donating access to Azure AI-optimized infrastructure to increase the availability of Khanmigo for Teachers, which will now be powered by Azure OpenAI Service.
- New partnership with Cognition AI
Microsoft and Cognition will bring Cognition’s autonomous AI software agent, Devin, to customers to help them with complex tasks such as code migration and modernization projects. As part of the agreement, Devin will be powered by Azure. Cognition AI is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents to help developers achieve more.
- Powerful new virtual machines help fuel AI adoption
Microsoft has a unique systems approach to AI infrastructure, which includes hardware and software from Microsoft and our partners, all optimized to run AI workloads at scale and fine-tuned for customer needs. We are the first cloud provider to bring AMD’s leading MI300X AI accelerator chip to power customers’ AI training and inferencing needs, with the general availability of the Azure ND MI300X v5 virtual machine series optimized for demanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads like Azure OpenAI Service.
- Microsoft Copilot Studio is introducing new agent capabilities, empowering developers to build copilots that can proactively respond to data and events, tailored to specific tasks and functions. Copilots built with this new category of capabilities can now independently manage complex, long-running business processes by leveraging memory and knowledge for context, reason over actions and inputs, learn based on user feedback and ask for help when they encounter situations that they don’t know how to handle. Users can now put Copilot to work for them – from IT device procurement to customer concierge for sales and service.
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