At Microsoft Encourage, Microsoft’s annual occasion the place it highlights what it has achieved with totally 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 consumer per 30 days, on prime of regular Microsoft 365 pricing.
“Whereas some generative AI apps give attention to 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 knowledge like your paperwork, emails, calendar, chats, conferences and contacts, and mixing them along 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 submit.
The corporate additionally introduced Bing Chat Enterprise, which permits corporations to make use of Bing Chat internally in order that their knowledge stays protected. In keeping with Microsoft, within the enterprise model chat knowledge isn’t saved and it’s not used to coach fashions. This new function has begun rolling out at no additional value for patrons of Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Enterprise Premium and Enterprise Commonplace. It is going to even be accessible as a standalone subscription for $5 per consumer per 30 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 electronic mail drafts, and assembly preparations.
Microsoft additionally revealed the addition of course of mining capabilities to Energy Automate. This can give clients extra alternatives to optimize their processes so they’re extra environment friendly. “With Course of Mining, customers can perceive what is going on throughout their enterprise, use AI that generates insights, app and automation options, 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 gives advantages like permitting docs to discover affected person knowledge in a conversational means 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 following era of our associate program, which empowers each associate to ship buyer worth whereas leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. Via the Microsoft AI Cloud Companion Program, we’re offering companions with a complete portfolio of investments for all associate enterprise fashions, at each stage of maturity,” Shaw wrote.
