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Microsoft Phi-Silica: 3.3B small AI model made for Copilot+ PC NPUs | VentureBeat
New models added to the Phi-3 family, available on Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure Blog
“Phi-3 small & medium are now available under the MIT license! 🚀@Microsoft has just launched Phi-3 small (7B) and medium (14B) 🤯. The Phi-3 small model claims to outperform @AIatMeta’s Llama 3 and @MistralAI, and the Phi-3 medium model GPT-3.5 and @cohere Command R+. 🤔 TL;DR:
Microsoft launches AI PCs
“Microsoft changed computing history by inventing a new category: the Personal Computer or PC. Now we’re re-inventing PCs for the AI era, taking us from personal computing to truly personal intelligence. Today we’re launching a new product category: Copilot+ PCs, the biggest” / X
Introducing Copilot+ PCs – The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs | TechCrunch
“Microsoft revealed Copilot Plus PCs: The world’s first ‘AI-first’ PCs Copilot+ PCs can run AI workloads up to 20x faster and 100x more efficiently than traditional PCs, and are 58% faster than a Macbook Air M3.
Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air – The Verge
“AI-oriented PCs with a special processor and dedicated Microsoft Co-Pilot key will start shipping from Dell this year, according to CEO Michael Dell
Microsoft Build 2024 preview: The year of AI PCs
“Introducing Copilot+ PCs: the fastest, most powerful and intelligent Windows PCs ever. They give you a photographic memory of everything you’ve done on your PC and the ability to cocreate with AI in real-time! Here:
“Here’s what it looks like to have a CPU, GPU, and now 45+ TOPS NPU working together on a Copilot+ PC (Surface Laptop) to deliver unrivaled performance. Here is a demo from my colleague Vivek.
Microsoft Windows 11 feature “Recall”: Photographic memory or privacy nightmare?
“One of the biggest AI features launched in the Copilot Plus PCs is called ‘Recall’ It allows users to search and recall anything they’ve seen and interacted with on their computer screens, with natural language.
“Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
“Do you want a photographic memory? The next best thing is Recall. Check out this new experience only available on Copilot+ PCs. Here is a demo from my colleague Carolina.
Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Recall is a privacy nightmare
“The real question is if Microsoft will derive insights *locally* about you & your activities from AI Recall, and send those derived insights up to the cloud. They could do that for all AI Recall users while leaving their screenshots on their computers 🙂
“Lots of folks have asked me about Microsoft Recall so here’s my take!
“The event today is not being streamed. I’ll post updates here, details later. They have already announced a new ability called ‘Recall’ which will let Copilot see, and search, through everything on your local PC. Copilot will now also be able to see your screen, and its own UI.
Microsoft Copilot News
“Microsoft just previewed Copilot’s new feature powered by GPT-4o. By enabling screen sharing, the AI can watch and understand what you’re on your computer and answer questions in real-time. It’s essentially the new ChatGPT Mac App, but for Windows.
Microsoft’s new Windows Copilot Runtime aims to win over AI developers – The Verge
“Another step towards JARVIS. Microsoft Copilot is getting GPT-4o, which is multimodal in & out — so you can talk while screen sharing and get real time Minecraft coaching. Might be the only way I learn to build & fight at the same time in Fortnite.
“Here is a preview of Copilot, powered by @OpenAI GPT-4o. Watch one of our developers have a natural conversation with Copilot as it helps him avoid Zombies in Minecraft.
“Copilot is also getting a new screen-sharing feature powered by GPT-4o It allows AI to watch, hear, and understand what a user is doing on their computer and answer questions in real time. We’re entering an entirely new era of tech work.
Other Microsoft News
Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features – The Verge
“We’re rolling out interactive tables and charts along with the ability to add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive into ChatGPT. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users over the coming weeks.
Khan Academy and Microsoft partner to expand access to AI tools that personalize teaching and help make learning fun – Source
“We are partnering with Microsoft to help bring Devin to every developer. Under the partnership, Microsoft will use Devin to help its developers achieve more, starting with code migrations and modernization, and bring Devin to its customer base. Devin will be powered by Azure.
Aurora: A Foundation Model of the Atmosphere – Microsoft Research
What’s next: Microsoft Build continues the evolution and expansion of AI tools for developers – The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft announces $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin to spur artificial intelligence innovation and economic growth – Stories
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AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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