Key insights

• GitHub Copilot Enhancements

  • 🔗 GitHub Copilot expands its capabilities to include integrations with third-party services, a new extension for Azure, and the ability to assist with tasks beyond coding.
  • 🤝 Introduction of Copilot Studio, as an AI tool for meeting facilitation, collaboration, and project management, with a focus on automation, business process management, and learning from feedback.

• Microsoft Fabric

  • 🛠️ Microsoft Fabric offers a unified platform for real-time intelligence on streaming data, integrated with AI capabilities and developer tools like GitHub Copilot.

• New AI Models and Partnerships

  • 🎮 Minecraft tutorial and a demonstration of AI capabilities, with announcements about new AI models and partnerships.
  • 📚 Introduction of new Phi-3 models for diverse applications like math tutoring and image processing, and a partnership with Khan Academy to enhance math tutoring.
  • 🖥️ Availability of Azure AI Studio with comprehensive tools for AI model development and safety features, and Azure AI custom models for training unique domain-specific models.

• Azure AI Infrastructure

  • 🔷 Microsoft Azure scaled its AI infrastructure, including a deep partnership with NVIDIA and the addition of AMD's MI300X AI accelerator.
  • 🚀 Announced the public preview of Cobalt-based VMs, the broadest selection of frontier and open source models, and the strategic partnership with OpenAI for GPT-4o.
  • 🤯 Introduction of GPT-4o, a breakthrough multimodal model trained on Azure, delivering state-of-the-art performance.
  • 💡 Microsoft leverages GPT-4o in Copilot to assist users with various tasks.

• Microsoft and AI Platforms

  • 🎮 Microsoft is focused on democratizing technology and making progress with AI platforms like Copilot and PC, PyTorch, and WebNN for developers.
  • 🌱 They are also emphasizing comprehensive AI infrastructure development with a focus on sustainability.

• AI Transformation

  • 🤖 The age of AI transformation is here, with AI providing personal assistance, tutoring, and coaching for everyone.
  • 🧠 Scaling laws of DNNs are driving the intelligence revolution, leading to breakthroughs in user interfaces, memory retention, reasoning, and planning capabilities.
  • 🌍 Developers are applying AI capabilities to change the world with rapid diffusion and increasing impact worldwide.

Q&A

• What is Copilot Studio, and what features does it offer?

  Copilot Studio is an AI tool designed to act as a meeting facilitator, collaborator, and project manager. It is equipped to automate tasks, manage business processes, and learn from feedback. Microsoft has also expressed its commitment to robust security and empowering every individual and organization, along with discussing the impact of AI on accessibility through audio descriptions for the visually impaired community.

• What are the new capabilities and features of GitHub Copilot?

  GitHub Copilot now supports integrations with third-party services, such as Docker, Sentry, and Azure. It also assists with tasks beyond coding, such as gathering requirements, writing specifications, and creating plans. Additionally, GitHub introduces Copilot Studio for customization and integration with organizational knowledge and data through Copilot connectors, and Team Copilot for collaboration in Microsoft Teams.

• What are the highlights of the Microsoft Fabric platform?

  Microsoft Fabric offers a unified platform for real-time intelligence on streaming data, with rich out-of-the-box connectors and natural language support. The platform allows data analysis, visualization, and proactive decision-making across all data sources, including cloud and on-premise. It is integrated with developer tools like GitHub Copilot.

• How has Microsoft scaled its AI infrastructure?

  Microsoft Azure has scaled its AI infrastructure, including a deep partnership with NVIDIA and the addition of AMD's MI300X AI accelerator. They also announced the public preview of Cobalt-based VMs, the broadest selection of frontier and open source models, and the strategic partnership with OpenAI for GPT-4o. The GPT-4o model, trained on Azure, is a breakthrough multimodal model with state-of-the-art performance. Copilot will leverage GPT-4o to assist users with various tasks.

• What is Microsoft's focus in the age of AI transformation?

  Microsoft is focused on democratizing technology and making progress with AI platforms like Copilot and PC, PyTorch, and WebNN for developers. They are also emphasizing comprehensive AI infrastructure development with a focus on sustainability.

• 00:06 The age of AI transformation is here, with AI providing personal assistance, tutoring, and coaching for everyone. The scaling laws of DNNs are driving this intelligence revolution, leading to breakthroughs in user interfaces, memory retention, reasoning, and planning capabilities. Developers are using these AI capabilities to change the world around us, with rapid diffusion and increasing impact worldwide.
• 07:06 Microsoft is focused on democratizing technology and is making progress with AI platforms like Copilot and PC, PyTorch, and WebNN for developers. They are also emphasizing comprehensive AI infrastructure development with a focus on sustainability.
• 14:48 Microsoft Azure has scaled its AI infrastructure, including a deep partnership with NVIDIA and the addition of AMD's MI300X AI accelerator. They also announced the public preview of Cobalt-based VMs, the broadest selection of frontier and open source models, and the strategic partnership with OpenAI for GPT-4o. The GPT-4o model, trained on Azure, is a breakthrough multimodal model with state-of-the-art performance. Copilot will leverage GPT-4o to assist users with various tasks.
• 21:11 A Minecraft tutorial, a demonstration of AI capabilities, and announcements about new AI models and partnerships.
• 26:23 Microsoft introduces new Phi-3 models for diverse applications like math tutoring and image processing. The partnership with Khan Academy aims to make math tutoring more accessible. Azure AI Studio provides comprehensive tools and safety features for developing and evaluating AI models.
• 32:34 Microsoft Fabric is a unified platform for real-time intelligence on streaming data, integrated with AI capabilities and developer tools like GitHub Copilot.
• 39:19 GitHub Copilot is expanding its capabilities to include integrations with third-party services, a new extension for Azure, and the ability to assist with tasks beyond coding. GitHub Copilot Studio allows for customization and integration with organizational knowledge and data through Copilot connectors. Team Copilot is also being introduced to enable collaboration in Teams and other Microsoft applications.
• 45:44 Microsoft introduces Copilot Studio, an AI tool that can act as a meeting facilitator, collaborator, and project manager. The tool is designed to automate tasks, manage business processes, and learn from feedback. The segment also discusses Microsoft's commitment to robust security and empowering every person and organization, as well as the impact of AI on accessibility through audio descriptions.