At Microsoft Encourage, Microsoft’s annual occasion the place it highlights what it has achieved with completely different companions, the corporate made a number of bulletins associated to AI.
First, it introduced pricing for its upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot providing. The function will value $30 per person per thirty days, on prime of regular Microsoft 365 pricing.
“Whereas some generative AI apps deal with a single functionality, like real-time transcription or copywriting, Microsoft 365 Copilot places 1000’s of expertise at your command. By grounding solutions in enterprise information like your paperwork, emails, calendar, chats, conferences and contacts, and mixing them together with your working context – the assembly you’re in now, the emails you’ve exchanged on a subject, the chats you had final week – Copilot delivers richer, extra related and extra actionable responses to your questions,” Frank X. Shaw, chief communications officer at Microsoft, wrote in a weblog put up.
The corporate additionally introduced Bing Chat Enterprise, which permits corporations to make use of Bing Chat internally in order that their information stays protected. In keeping with Microsoft, within the enterprise model chat information isn’t saved and it’s not used to coach fashions. This new function has begun rolling out at no further value for patrons of Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Enterprise Premium and Enterprise Customary. It can even be obtainable as a standalone subscription for $5 per person per thirty days.
New options have additionally been added to Microsoft Gross sales Copilot to additional empower gross sales groups to make use of AI. It now consists of AI-generated alternative summaries, contextualized e mail drafts, and assembly preparations.
Microsoft additionally revealed the addition of course of mining capabilities to Energy Automate. This may give clients extra alternatives to optimize their processes so they’re extra environment friendly. “With Course of Mining, customers can perceive what is occurring throughout their enterprise, use AI that generates insights, app and automation ideas, and use Energy Platform to shortly construct the options they want,” Shaw wrote.
Since Microsoft Encourage is usually about showcasing Microsoft’s partnerships with different corporations, the corporate additionally made a number of bulletins about its collaborations with companions.
It’s partnering with Meta on its open-source large-language mannequin, Llama 2. The mannequin will likely be optimized to run on Home windows and Azure clients will have the ability to deploy Llama 2 fashions there.
It additionally introduced that the healthcare firm Epic has built-in Azure OpenAI Service into its digital well being document system. This integration supplies advantages like permitting medical doctors to discover affected person information in a conversational approach and serving to them reply to affected person messages extra effectively.
Microsoft additionally introduced its new AI Cloud Companion Program. “In one other milestone, Microsoft Encourage marks the launch of the Microsoft AI Cloud Companion Program, the subsequent technology of our companion program, which empowers each companion to ship buyer worth whereas leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. By way of the Microsoft AI Cloud Companion Program, we’re offering companions with a complete portfolio of investments for all companion enterprise fashions, at each stage of maturity,” Shaw wrote.