Microsoft is building a new consumer health AI division, poaching top talent from Google's DeepMind to develop healthcare applications using generative AI technologies.
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The latest tip suggests that Microsoft has decided that it will name the AI features on Windows 11 as "Windows Intelligence."
Be My Eyes has announced it will send video data from its services to Microsoft to help train its AI models to improve them for people who are blind or have low vision.
Microsoft has released a preview of Microsoft.Extensions.AI, a set of .NET libraries that simplify AI integration into applications.
The European Commission has declined to open an investigation into Microsoft's hiring of employees from AI startup Inflection, despite requests from member states.
TCL unveils two new Nxtpaper smartphones with enhanced AI capabilities through strategic partnership with Microsoft.
There's a reportedly leaked document that seems to indicate Microsoft's AI employees are being paid more on average compared to Azure team members.
Mustafa Suleyman, the recently named CEO of Microsoft AI, stated during the recent Aspen Ideas Festival that nearly everything on the web can be freely used by companies to train AI models.
Microsoft says it is trying to cut down on hallucinations in responses from generative AI like Copilot with an upcoming tool that's designed to both block and rewrite ungrounded info.
Back in December, Microsoft began testing AI-generated Edge Workspaces. The feature has since made it to the Stable channel and recently, the Redmond giant quietly shared details about it.
The European Union announced today that Microsoft has not sent over requested information on some of its generative AI tools, and has given the company until May 27 to do so, or risk being fined.
A new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap site this week shows that the Edge web browser will be adding a way to type in text prompts to create images that can be used for new browser themes.
Microsoft has plans to spend $3.3 billion to launch a new AI data center in Wisconsin, on land that was first bought by Foxconn for a failed LCD factory. President Joe Biden will help with the reveal.
Microsoft has revealed it has launched a new generative AI service specifically made for being used by US intelligence groups. This unnamed service is not connected to the internet.
Microsoft has announced a partnership with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on its new AI Cyber Challenge. Microsoft will offer Azure AI resources for the contestants.
Microsoft made a number of security announcements today as part of the RSA Conference. They include expanding Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect a company's AI deployments and more.
Microsoft is reportedly working on its own AI large language model called MAI-1. It is being created to rival other LLMs from Google, Anthropic, and even ChatGPT from Microsoft's partner OpenAI.
The Microsoft Start weather forecasting development team has recently created a series of new AI models that were designed to offer more accurate weather forecasts as far as 30 days in advance.
Team members at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and other companies are anonymously reporting that they are being asked to develop AI services as fast as possible, and many are experiencing burnout.
Microsoft committed $2.2B to expand its cloud and AI operations in Malaysia over the next few years. This is the company's largest ever investment in the country with new local infrastructure.
Microsoft has just announced another partnership with an AI startup company, Sanctuary AI. The two businesses will work together to create a human-like AI model for general purpose robots.
Microsoft is trying to show it is taking the use of AI services and their effects seriously by publishing its first annual AI transparency report, with info on its own employee practices.
Internal Microsoft emails have revealed the company feared it will fall behind Google in AI development in 2019. The CTO's emails showed that he believed Microsoft was years behind Google's AI.
Several newspaper chains have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted articles without permission. They also say it has an 'uncanny' ability to reproduce news stories.
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to develop Indonesia's AI infrastructure by building new cloud computing data centers. CEO Satya Nadella said it would be their largest investment in the country.
Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the beauty company Estée Lauder to create a new AI Innovation Lab to help speed up product development for Estée Lauder's beauty brands.
Microsoft has introduced an upgraded lineup of small AI models, Phi-3. The family includes Phi-3 Mini with 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Small with 7 billion, and Phi-3 Medium with 14 billion.
Microsoft has more details on how it is trying to fight against hacker attacks on the guardrails to AI services after deep fake images of Taylor Swift were reportedly made in Microsoft Designer.
Microsoft is shaking up its AI leadership, moving consumer products like Bing under a new division headed by DeepMind co-founder. Bing executive Mikhail Parakhin will leave his current role.
Microsoft has announced a new "Microsoft AI" division for its artificial intelligence efforts. Led by a DeepMind co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, it will also govern Edge, Bing, and Copilot projects.
Microsoft has announced the formation of the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network. This collection of major healthcare companies will help create responsible AI principles for their businesses.
Microsoft has announced a new five-year partnership with 1910 Genetics to help boost the development and research of pharmaceutical products via Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has outlined the company's new AI Access Principles, which it says will help guide its AI data center infrastructure policies as well as its other AI assets.
Microsoft has announced a new multi-year partnership with the France-based generative AI startup company Mistral AI. The deal also includes an undisclosed minor investment by Microsoft.
Microsoft is developing more efficient AI by forming a new team called GenAI, which will focus on building smaller language models than OpenAI. The GenAI team will be led by VP Misha Bilenko.
The DOJ and FTC are engaged in a "turf war" over who gets to investigate Microsoft's investment in and partnership with OpenAI for antitrust issues. Sources say neither agency will cede jurisdiction.
Microsoft teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to make a new and better lithium battery, with the help of Microsoft's AI and its Azure Quantum Elements services.
While it has been expected for a while that Windows 12 will be released sometime next year, a new report suggests it will be in the middle of the year in June, possibly sometime around Computex.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott wrote an internal memo to all of the company's employees today, thanking them and stating he was glad to be "part of such an amazing team" during the whole OpenAI event.
Announced earlier this year at its Build conference, Microsoft has now officially made its new Fabric data analytics program generally available for business users as part of Ignite 2023.
