Microsoft Ignite 2023: Azure Cobalt 100, Copilot Extension, And Upgrades To Teams،
At Ignite 2023, Microsoft announced numerous Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure developments. Initially, the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, took the stage and reflected on how the world has changed since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT last year. As for the announcements, Nadella said the company is entering a new phase of AI: creating and deploying technology that people can use. That said, here’s everything Microsoft announced at Ignite 2023.
Microsoft reveals two new chips for AI workloads
At Ignite 2023, Microsoft unveiled Azure Cobalt 100, a new Arm-based chip designed for cloud workloads. It is optimized for performance, energy efficiency and cost effectiveness. Additionally, the company also unveiled Azure Maia, an AI accelerator chip for cloud-based training and inference for AI workloads, such as Bing, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT.
Alongside these chips is Azure Boost, a system that speeds up storage and networking by moving certain processes from the host server to “purpose-built hardware and software.”
Copilot is now available for a multitude of services
Microsoft is also expanding Copilot to more solutions. First, the company announced a new Copilot dashboard that provides insights like those from the Work Trend Index. Copilot also benefits from personalization capabilities that allow responses to be adapted.
IT teams can use Copilot Studio to customize the solution by integrating business-critical data. Their daily tasks can also be simplified using Copilot for Azure. Copilot for Service delivers the framework’s generative AI capabilities to contact centers. In the future, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise will simply “become Copilot.”
Teams benefits from several new experiences
Popular video conferencing platform Teams is also receiving updates powered by Copilot, including new whiteboarding and collaborative note-taking experiences. Other features coming to Teams include live translated transcriptions and portrait blur.
The biggest update is the new VR meeting experience which will arrive on the platform in January 2024. Microsoft also explained how its generative AI model will be able to create new meeting spaces and objects in a virtual environment, unlike to everything the platform has ever done.
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