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Microsoft Releases AIOpsLab, an Open-Source Standardised AI Framework for AIOps Agents
Microsoft researchers released an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) framework for agents that operate in cloud environments. Dubbed AIOpsLab, it is a principled research framework that enables developers to build, test, compare, and improve AIOps agents. The framework is supported by Azure AI Agent Service. The AIOpsLab uses an intermediary ...
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Microsoft Phi-4 Open-Source Small Language Model Introduced; Claimed to Outperform Gemini 1.5 Pro
Microsoft released the Phi-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Friday. The small language model (SLM) joins the company’s open-source Phi family of foundational models. The next generation of the AI model comes eight months after the release of Phi-3 and four months after the introduction of the Phi-3.5 series of AI models.
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Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event
Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents ...
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Microsoft Forecasts Slower Cloud Business Growth in Second Quarter
Microsoft has forecast an increase in spending on AI this quarter and warned of slower growth in its cloud business Azure, even as the company beat Wall Street's estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit.. The Redmond company has signalled that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centres.
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Release The Successor to GPT-4 Before the End of This Year
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) model before the end of the year. As per a report, the next frontier model of the company will be significantly more powerful and capable than the GPT-4 AI model. The large language model is said to be internally called Orion.
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Microsoft Launches ‘Correction’, an AI Feature That Can Detect and Fix AI Hallucinations
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability on Tuesday that will identify and correct instances when an AI model generates incorrect information. Dubbed “Correction”, the feature is being integrated within Azure AI Content Safety’s groundedness detection system. Since this feature is available only through Azure, it is li...
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Microsoft's Xbox Unit Logs 61 Percent Growth, Fuelled by Purchase of Activision-Blizzard
Microsoft has managed to see a substantial growth in its Xbox unit, while having logged losses in Azure, which has been the software firm's main growth engine in recent years. In the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, capital expenditures for Microsoft jumped to $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,59,091 crore) from $14 billion (roughly Rs. 1,17,225 cror...
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''Microsoft Makes Third-Rate Products'': Old Interview Of Steve Jobs Viral Amid Outage
In a 1995 interview with tech journalist Bob Cringely, Mr Jobs said that Microsoft lacks originality and taste in their products.
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CrowdStrike Update Error Debacle: 5 Things to Know About Microsoft’s Global Outage
CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.
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Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat on OpenAI Board Amid Regulatory Scrutiny: Report
Microsoft will not be an observer in OpenAI's board, according to a report. Microsoft took a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI's board in November last year after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took back the reins of the company which operates the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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"Done": Bhavish Aggarwal As Ola Shifts To Krutrim From Microsoft's Azure
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Wednesday said that his company's entire workload has now been shifted from Microsoft Azure to its homegrown Krutrim cloud.
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Microsoft Adds GPT-4o Support for Azure, Unveils Copilot AI Agents for Automation
Microsoft Build 2024 witnessed a large number of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused announcements from the company that spanned across Copilot, Azure cloud service, its data analytics platform Microsoft Fabric, and various other platforms. Expanding Azure, the tech giant has made GPT-4o, which was recently unveiled, generally available via its Az...
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Truecaller Collaborates With Microsoft to Integrate Personal Voice With AI Assistant: How to Set It
Truecaller is collaborating with Microsoft to significantly upgrade its existing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature AI Assistant. As a part of this partnership, the caller identification app will leverage the Microsoft Azure AI Speech feature called Personal Voice. This will be integrated with the AI Assistant to give it a replica voice o...
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Microsoft Phi-3 Launched as Company's Smallest Open-Source AI Model to Date
Microsoft released its smaller language artificial intelligence (AI) model Phi-3-mini on Tuesday. The AI model has been made available in open source and is hosted on Hugging Face. As per reports, it has also been hosted on Microsoft Azure and Ollama platforms. The AI model is the successor to Phi-2 which was released in December 2023, and comes wi...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Large Firms, Including Some Microsoft Customers
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London this month where he and other OpenAI executives pitched AI services for corporate use, going head-to-head in some cases with financial backer Microsoft, attendees told Reuters.
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Microsoft Releases AIOpsLab, an Open-Source Standardised AI Framework for AIOps Agents
Microsoft researchers released an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) framework for agents that operate in cloud environments. Dubbed AIOpsLab, it is a principled research framework that enables developers to build, test, compare, and improve AIOps agents. The framework is supported by Azure AI Agent Service. The AIOpsLab uses an intermediary ...
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Microsoft Phi-4 Open-Source Small Language Model Introduced; Claimed to Outperform Gemini 1.5 Pro
Microsoft released the Phi-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Friday. The small language model (SLM) joins the company’s open-source Phi family of foundational models. The next generation of the AI model comes eight months after the release of Phi-3 and four months after the introduction of the Phi-3.5 series of AI models.
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Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event
Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents ...
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Microsoft Forecasts Slower Cloud Business Growth in Second Quarter
Microsoft has forecast an increase in spending on AI this quarter and warned of slower growth in its cloud business Azure, even as the company beat Wall Street's estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit.. The Redmond company has signalled that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centres.
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Release The Successor to GPT-4 Before the End of This Year
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) model before the end of the year. As per a report, the next frontier model of the company will be significantly more powerful and capable than the GPT-4 AI model. The large language model is said to be internally called Orion.
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Microsoft Launches ‘Correction’, an AI Feature That Can Detect and Fix AI Hallucinations
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability on Tuesday that will identify and correct instances when an AI model generates incorrect information. Dubbed “Correction”, the feature is being integrated within Azure AI Content Safety’s groundedness detection system. Since this feature is available only through Azure, it is li...
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Microsoft's Xbox Unit Logs 61 Percent Growth, Fuelled by Purchase of Activision-Blizzard
Microsoft has managed to see a substantial growth in its Xbox unit, while having logged losses in Azure, which has been the software firm's main growth engine in recent years. In the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, capital expenditures for Microsoft jumped to $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,59,091 crore) from $14 billion (roughly Rs. 1,17,225 cror...
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''Microsoft Makes Third-Rate Products'': Old Interview Of Steve Jobs Viral Amid Outage
In a 1995 interview with tech journalist Bob Cringely, Mr Jobs said that Microsoft lacks originality and taste in their products.
-
CrowdStrike Update Error Debacle: 5 Things to Know About Microsoft’s Global Outage
CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.
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Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat on OpenAI Board Amid Regulatory Scrutiny: Report
Microsoft will not be an observer in OpenAI's board, according to a report. Microsoft took a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI's board in November last year after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took back the reins of the company which operates the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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"Done": Bhavish Aggarwal As Ola Shifts To Krutrim From Microsoft's Azure
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Wednesday said that his company's entire workload has now been shifted from Microsoft Azure to its homegrown Krutrim cloud.
-
Microsoft Adds GPT-4o Support for Azure, Unveils Copilot AI Agents for Automation
Microsoft Build 2024 witnessed a large number of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused announcements from the company that spanned across Copilot, Azure cloud service, its data analytics platform Microsoft Fabric, and various other platforms. Expanding Azure, the tech giant has made GPT-4o, which was recently unveiled, generally available via its Az...
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Truecaller Collaborates With Microsoft to Integrate Personal Voice With AI Assistant: How to Set It
Truecaller is collaborating with Microsoft to significantly upgrade its existing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature AI Assistant. As a part of this partnership, the caller identification app will leverage the Microsoft Azure AI Speech feature called Personal Voice. This will be integrated with the AI Assistant to give it a replica voice o...
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Microsoft Phi-3 Launched as Company's Smallest Open-Source AI Model to Date
Microsoft released its smaller language artificial intelligence (AI) model Phi-3-mini on Tuesday. The AI model has been made available in open source and is hosted on Hugging Face. As per reports, it has also been hosted on Microsoft Azure and Ollama platforms. The AI model is the successor to Phi-2 which was released in December 2023, and comes wi...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Large Firms, Including Some Microsoft Customers
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London this month where he and other OpenAI executives pitched AI services for corporate use, going head-to-head in some cases with financial backer Microsoft, attendees told Reuters.
