USA: Microsoft appears to be relishing its position at the head of the AI race. If it wasn't obvious, the business is demonstrating that on the opening day of Build 2023, its yearly developer conference. The company has revealed a slew of AI-powered features for a number of products, including Windows 11 and the Microsoft Store, as was to be expected. Let's look at some of the most important announcements.
AI was the main topic of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's keynote address at the event. He discussed his ChatGPT experience and how it affected the development of technology. Additionally, Nadella made some significant announcements, including Azure AI Studio, which enables companies to create custom models, and Microsoft Fabric, which the CEO referred to as the company's largest AI offering.
Microsoft is following through on its pledge to integrate AI into all of its products. The business unveiled a Copilot AI assistant for Windows 11 today. The assistant, which will be built right into Windows 11, can assist users with a variety of tasks. In all apps and programmes, users will be able to access and use the Windows 11 Copilot directly from the taskbar.
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Users will be able to ask questions of the Copilot because of the way that it resembles the dialogue box in Bing Chat. The Windows Copilot is what Microsoft refers to as a "personal assistant," which means it can carry out tasks on behalf of users. It will be able to change settings or carry out other tasks on the PC, for example. Users of the Copilot can even add plugins.
Microsoft is still working to improve Windows 11. A new app that will make life simpler for developers has been introduced by the company. With Microsoft's Package Manager (winget), referred to as "Dev Home," it simplifies the process of setting up a developer environment. It can create the configuration file required by developers to install the programmes, tools, and packages. GitHub can be accessed through Dev Home.
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Many people, including OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk, are displeased with Microsoft's alliance with OpenAI. The two will nevertheless continue to develop their relationship despite this.
Microsoft declared that Bing will become ChatGPT's default search engine at Build 2023. As a result, ChatGPT will have access to the most recent information on everything. Web data from ChatGPT that is powered by Bing will reference links.
The Microsoft Store now offers AI. The Store will get an AI hub that will highlight positive AI user experiences. The business will also begin compiling app reviews using AI. Users won't have to waste time scrolling through numerous reviews thanks to the AI-generated app reviews. Microsoft did not, however, elaborate on its plans for reviewing these summaries.
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Microsoft's OneLake data lake serves as the foundation of Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end analytics platform. It can also extract data from Amazon S3. Integration tools, a Spark-based data engineering platform, a real-time analytics platform, and an AI-based visualisation analytics tool are all part of Fabric's comprehensive data analytics package. Additionally, it provides a no-code developer experience for tracking data and initiating actions.