During Build 2024, Microsoft announced another member of the Phi AI small language model family, called Phi Silica. It will be able to be run locally on the NPU chips in Copilot+ PCs.
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FROM YOUR EYES, a team based in Turkey, is the grand prize winner of the 2024 Microsoft Imagine Cup student competition for their application designed to help people with visual disabilities.
As part of Build 2024, Microsoft has announced that its in-house Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 processor is now available to try out with its new Azure Virtual Machines via a preview program.
Microsoft announced a number of upcoming features for its Copilot Studio. They include offering developers a way to make custom Copilots that can work as automated agents and more.
Microsoft has said its Visual Studio Code for Education platform will be made generally available at the end of the month. The platform aims to make it easy to learn to do programming.
Microsoft has prepared a couple of updates for its browser to showcase at the ongoing Build 2024 conference. Edge is getting real-time video translation and improved protection against data leaks.
During Build 2024, Microsoft announced a preview version of Phi-3-vision. This is a multimodel addition to its Phi-3 AI small language model family that was first revealed in April.
Microsoft and Khan Academy have formed a new partnership that will see the Khanmigo teaching assistant AI tool become free of charge for educators in the United States, down from $4 per month.
Microsoft announced a number of new features coming to Teams and Teams Premium users as part of the Build 2024 event. They include support for creating custom emojis and reactions and more.
Microsoft and Qualcomm announced that a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows will soon be released. It will include a Snapdragon X Elite SoC to help developers make apps for Copilot+ PC devices.
Today at Build 2024, Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is finally generally available (GA). The new VS Code update brings several other enhancements.
.NET 9 has received its latest preview update today with Preview 4. Microsoft announced this today at Build 2024 and states that the new preview is about performance and optimization.
Microsoft will hold a press event on Monday, May 20, followed by its Build 2024 developer conference on May 21-23. Here's how to watch these events and what we expect to see there.
Microsoft has announced that student teams from Turkey, the UK, and the US are the three finalists who will compete to win the grand prize in Microsoft's 2024 edition of the Imagine Cup event.
PowerToys is next in line to receive AI treatment. A session scheduled at the upcoming Build 2024 conference revealed a new AI-powered feature coming to PowerToys on Windows 11 soon.
Microsoft will be holding a special media event on May 20 where it will reveal even more AI-based features coming to Windows, along with new Surface PC announcements, the day before Build 2024.
Microsoft has confirmed that its annual Build developer conference will be held on May 21-23, 2024, at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, in the new Summit building.
