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Microsoft confirm GPT-4o is now available on Azure AI

Just ahead of Microsoft Build, the Azure team have announced the availability of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest flagship model on Azure AI. This innovative multimodal model combines text, vision, and audio capabilities, establishing a new benchmark for generative and conversational AI experiences. GPT-4o is now available in the Azure OpenAI Service for preview, with support for text and image inputs.

This is a preview for testing now

What does GPT-4o Bring?

GPT-4o represents a paradigm shift in the interaction of AI models with multimodal inputs. It integrates text, images, and audio to deliver a more immersive and engaging user experience.

What does the “preview” include?

Currently in preview, Azure OpenAI Service customers will be able to test GPT-4o’s broad capabilities via a preview playground in Azure OpenAI Studio. This initial version emphasizes text and visual inputs, offering a preview of the model’s possibilities and setting the stage for additional functionalities, including audio and video.

The preview is free to try but has limitations around usage and location availability.

Designed for rapidity and efficiency, GPT-4o’s sophisticated processing of complex inquiries with fewer resources has the potential to offer both cost efficiency and enhanced performance.

Note: At time of writing, this is preview is available in two US regions only West US3 and East US.

What about GPT-4o in Microsoft Copilot?

We don’t know yet, but we do know that there will exciting updates around the rest of the Microsoft AI stack this week. Microsoft has an agressive and innovation fuelled roadmap for Microsoft 365 Copilot so as Microsoft continues to update and integrate OpenAI’s latest models into Copilot – I’m looking forward to hearing more this week.

What else is coming?

This week is Microsoft Build 2024 in Seattle and online. I expect this to be (pretty much) all about Copilot, and AI so expect to hear more about GPT-4o and other Azure AI updates.

Further Reading

You can read more about GOT-4o at the official OpenAI Blog which is < here >.

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Microsoft are adding a Copilot for Copilot (well sort of).

Yesterday, (8th May, 24) Microsoft released their 2024 Work Trend Index Report which covered the State of AI at Work (you can see this here) as well as announcing some more improvements coming to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months.

The new features annouced are all aimed at helping to optimise prompt writing, making it easier for people to get a prompt that does what they need first time (a Copilot for Copilot essentially). These updates will include.

  • Auto-complete for prompts
  • Prompt re-write
  • A new catch up feature
  • Copilot Labs upgrade.

Let dive into these quickly. All. Images (c) Microsoft.

Auto Complete for Prompts

Copilot’s new “autocomplete” feature is similar to what you get in a search engine, where it will anticipate (using Machine Learning) what you are writing and help you to complete your prompt when you start typing one out.

Image (c) Microsoft

The aim here to suggesting more details to ensure you get the intended outcome. It will also offer an expanded library of ‘next prompts’.

This means if you start typing “summarise” then Copilot will display options to summarise the last 10 unread emails and chat messages or other tasks that might be related.

Prompt Rewrite

The “rewrite” feature is something that many image AI tools have had for a while. The aim is to be able to takes a person’s basic prompt rewrite it to me more thorough, “turning everyone into a prompt engineer,” according to the Microsoft.

Image (c) Microsoft

Also known as “elaborate your prompt”, Microsoft say this will be able to rewrite any prompts people create making it much easier to do more complex tasks especially when working with documents or ‘connected apps’.

Copilot Catch-up

Copilot Catch Up aims to start making Copilot more “proactive”. Here the chat interface will be able to presents people with “responsive recommendations” based on their recent activity. As an example, it will be able to notify you about upcoming meetings and suggest ways to help you prepare for that meeting, by bringing a summary of recent email and chat threads, meetings notes and documents write in the chat thread. This feature is also coming into Copilot in Outlook.

This feature brings Copilot more into the realms of good ol Clippy (ok I’m kidding here) but will enable Copilot to start proactively helping rather than waiting for its pilot to issue a command and bring the genie out of its lamp!

The aim is to further integrate Copilot into the user’s workflows. Imagine for example having a morning prompt that tells you about your day, tickets logged via Service Now, or a project that is over running (via Project or Planner) or has  completed early perhaps!

Updates to Copilot Labs

Similar to Microsoft app Prompt Buddy, Microsoft will also start to allow people to create, publish, and manage prompts in Copilot Lab.

Image (c) Microsoft

This will bring new features that that can be tailored for individual teams within businesses. This is aimed to make it a lot easier to share useful prompts for employees, Teams and departments to use.

Will these help adoption?

What do you think about the new updates, will these help remove the dark art of promoting and make Copilot easier to use and faster to help people get the desired results.?

Let me know on the comments..

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Microsoft to open new AI Hub in London

Microsoft has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) hub in London, which will be focused on leading edge product development and research. This will be led Microsoft AI Lead Mustafa Suleyman (confounder of DeepMind) who Microsoft hired last month.

This annoucement comes less than a month since Microsoft unveiled a new consumer AI division.

There is an enormous pool of AI talent and expertise in the UK, and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region. (London).

Mustafa Suleyman

This is great for the UK and for London and will help both Microsoft and the UK become an AI  and technology superpower leveraging the hub of tech talent, access to leading and world class universities and research centres with ability to attract the best talent for the next generation of development of AI.

Microsofts AI Future in the UK

This announcement builds on Microsoft’s recent commitment to invest 2.5 Billion into data centre infrastructure and improving AI skills across the UK.

Microsoft’s AI investment in the UK includes building a major new data centre in West London and installing 20,000 high-powered processors in the UK by 2026.

Microsoft’s new UK hub will be run by Jordan Hoffmann,  (another former employee from DeepMind) and will collaborate closely with OpenAI which powers Microsoft’s AI driven Copilot System framework.

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