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The following is adapted from my remarks at Microsoft Build this morning.
Developer conferences are special places, especially when platform shifts are in the air. So, it’s exciting to be able to come back to Microsoft Build 2023 with a sense of anticipation that something big is unfolding around us.
I’ve always loved Steve Jobs’ description of computers as “bicycles for the mind.” It’s a beautiful metaphor, and I think it captures the essence of what computing is. And then, last November, we got an upgrade. With the launch of ChatGPT, computing went from a “bicycle for the mind” to a “steam engine for the mind.”
And now, as developers, we look forward to what we can do in this new era. Every layer of the technology stack will be changed forever.
At Build this year, we have more than 50 announcements, and I want to highlight five of them.
ChatGPT is the fastest-growing consumer app we’ve ever seen. And we are now bringing Bing to ChatGPT as the default search experience, so we can provide answers that are timelier, more up-to-date, and grounded by search and web data. We’re excited to launch this integration in ChatGPT Plus starting today and to make it available to the free tier soon. And this is just the start of what we plan to do with our partners at OpenAI to bring the best of Bing to the ChatGPT experience.
Second, we are bringing Copilot to the biggest canvas of all: Windows. This is going to make every Windows user a power user, helping them take action, customize their settings, and seamlessly connect across their favorite apps:
Next, we’ve built our copilots with a common architectural stack, and we are now making it available so that everyone can build their own AI apps and copilots—from the AI infrastructure, to foundation models, to the AI orchestration, all the way up to your copilot and its extensibility.
Whether it’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Microsoft Copilots, or your copilots, they will all share the same extensibility model. This is one of the most powerful things for any developer: to be able to write a plugin once and have it reach billions of users across all of these surface areas.
And we’re already seeing fantastic momentum:
Yusuf Mehdi, CVP and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, showed all of this in action:
Our new Azure AI Studio is the full-lifecycle developer toolchain for the new era of AI. You can train your own models, ground AI models—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4—on your own data, create prompt workflows, and more. It also includes built-in support for AI safety.
We’ve been at work on AI safety for years. We have AI principles, which we have translated into a core set of processes that we implement across our engineering stack, as well as compliance and oversight. But the real priority is to build it throughout the entire toolchain, and that’s what we’re doing with Azure AI Studio:
Every AI app starts with data. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce Microsoft Fabric. It’s the biggest launch of a data product from Microsoft since the launch of SQL Server.
It unifies compute and storage, the product experience, governance, and the business model, across all the different types of analytics workloads. And this unification, at the end of the day, is what I think will fuel the next generation of AI applications:
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As developers, one of the things that we should ask ourselves is: Why do we build technology?
The positive relationship between technology and economic growth has been evident for a long time. But it’s not just economic growth. We want lifespans to go up. We want education, prosperity, and standard of living to go up—everywhere. That’s why we build. That’s why we innovate. That’s why technology exists. It’s not technology for technology’s sake. It is for that broad impact.
For me, this all came together when I was visiting India earlier this year. I had a chance to see an example of an AI assistant, built on this next-generation AI, that will help Indian villagers gain easier access to government services. It had a profound impact on me. And so, I want to leave you with this video that epitomizes what you, as developers, can do in the days, weeks, months, and years to come:
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Summary: Windows 11 introduces Windows Copilot and Dev Home, leveraging AI to enhance user productivity and developer workflows. Windows Copilot offers centralized AI assistance, integrating with Bing Chat plugins for improved task completion and collaboration. The Hybrid AI loop and support from silicon partners enable AI development across Azure and client devices. Dev Home boosts developer productivity with features like WinGet configuration, Dev Drive for filesystem performance, and a customizable workflow dashboard. Windows Terminal integrates GitHub Copilot, providing AI recommendations within the Terminal app. Collaborating with NVIDIA, Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel, Windows expands its AI ecosystem. ONNX Runtime and Olive toolchain optimize AI models for diverse hardware targets. Windows also introduces ungrouped taskbar instances, improved archive format support, and enhanced development for Windows on Arm. In summary, Windows 11 maximizes productivity through AI-driven features like Windows Copilot and Dev Home, while fostering developer collaboration and expanding AI capabilities across devices.
Absolutely, the advancements announced at #MSBuild are truly exciting and transformative. The integration of Bing with ChatGPT, the introduction of Windows Copilot, and the unveiling of Microsoft Fabric all signify a major leap forward in the AI space.
The concept of ‘copilots’ and ‘plugins’ is particularly intriguing. It’s fascinating to see how AI is being leveraged to assist with complex tasks and enhance the capabilities of AI systems. This not only simplifies the user experience but also opens up a world of possibilities for developers.
Microsoft Fabric, as a unified platform for analytics, is a game-changer. It’s impressive to see how it brings together various aspects of data handling, from data engineering and integration to data science and real-time analytics. This will undoubtedly streamline the process of data management and analysis for organizations.
The introduction of Windows Copilot for Windows 11 is another highlight. The centralization of AI assistance on the PC platform is a significant step towards enhancing productivity and efficiency. It’s exciting to think about the potential impact this could have on the way we work and collaborate.
As many of us are preparing to gather in Hannover, Germany next week, I wanted to look back at the last year in manufacturing.
A lot has happened since Hannover Messe 2022. In an environment of increasing macro-economic headwinds, we are seeing many of our customers accelerate their digital transformation journeys to strengthen competitiveness.
Starting point for this transformation is a high-performing digital core, making data accessible across boundaries and driving innovation from the entire workforce. From there, cloud and AI technologies enable gains in productivity, resilience, time-to-market, and sustainability: Empowering a connected workforce and strengthening a resilient and agile supply chain. Accelerating the next generation of intelligent engineering and factories with the industrial metaverse. And building a foundation for an energy-efficient and sustainable future.
A great example of this innovation is Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies. They are developing new predictive modeling tools using the supercomputing capabilities of Azure HPC. This allows them to accelerate chemical simulations, explore the potential of AI, and get quantum-ready to help further their sustainability mission. They have been able to speed up quantum chemistry calculations and reduce the turnaround time for their scaled workloads from six months to just one week. It is truly impressive.
These are some of the key trends fueling the future our industry, and what you will see from Microsoft and our partners at HANNOVER MESSE 2023.
I invite you to read more in my new blog. And please join us in Hall 17 next week to see how your colleagues are maximizing the value of their digital investments to manufacture a more resilient and sustainable future.
https://lnkd.in/g4ZGCq-f
#HM23 #Manufacturing #Innovation #Metaverse #AI
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As many of us are preparing to gather in Hannover, Germany next week, I wanted to look back at the last year in manufacturing.
A lot has happened since Hannover Messe 2022. In an environment of increasing macro-economic headwinds, we are seeing many of our customers accelerate their digital transformation journeys to strengthen competitiveness.
Starting point for this transformation is a high-performing digital core, making data accessible across boundaries and driving innovation from the entire workforce. From there, cloud and AI technologies enable gains in productivity, resilience, time-to-market, and sustainability: Empowering a connected workforce and strengthening a resilient and agile supply chain. Accelerating the next generation of intelligent engineering and factories with the industrial metaverse. And building a foundation for an energy-efficient and sustainable future.
A great example of this innovation is Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies. They are developing new predictive modeling tools using the supercomputing capabilities of Azure HPC. This allows them to accelerate chemical simulations, explore the potential of AI, and get quantum-ready to help further their sustainability mission. They have been able to speed up quantum chemistry calculations and reduce the turnaround time for their scaled workloads from six months to just one week. It is truly impressive.
These are some of the key trends fueling the future our industry, and what you will see from Microsoft and our partners at HANNOVER MESSE 2023.
I invite you to read more in my new blog. And please join us in Hall 17 next week to see how your colleagues are maximizing the value of their digital investments to manufacture a more resilient and sustainable future.
https://lnkd.in/g4ZGCq-f
#HM23 #Manufacturing #Innovation #Metaverse #AI
REDMOND, Wash. — May 15, 2023 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday is announcing a suite of new AI solutions and improvements to Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit that are designed to transform the nonprofit industry and how fundraisers engage with donors, manage campaigns and optimize operations. In addition, the company announced a limited private preview for nonprofits to experience a new AI-powered fundraising propensity model. Within the preview, participating nonprofits will be able to test new AI tools that give fundraisers the power to do predictive forecasting of fundraising goals with data modeling and identify donors most likely to donate to a campaign, cause or major gift.
“Simply put, AI can and will be a game-changer for nonprofits and fundraisers,” said Justin Spelhaug, Vice President and Global Head, Tech for Social Impact at Microsoft. “With these new AI solutions, we aim to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to achieve more and to create a more positive and rewarding experience for donors.”
In today’s economic environment, nonprofits are consistently challenged to make budgets go further and do more with fewer resources. Since 2020, many fundraisers have seen an ongoing decline in the overall number of donors giving to causes. And although data can help nonprofits identify and prioritize the most promising prospects, predict donor behavior and measure fundraising outcomes, access to data and the ability to form actionable insights based on fundraising analytics is a major roadblock for many organizations. According to one study from the National Council of Nonprofits, barely 18% of nonprofits reported having all the data they need and using it in nearly every decision they make.
Microsoft Cloud for industries offers powerful, integrated and uniquely tailored industry solutions and workflows designed to allow organizations to realize breakthrough value and more easily achieve success, enabling them to unleash value quickly, build for the future and exceed expectations. And now, with AI as a copilot, Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit is delivering new capabilities to help fundraisers leverage data in a powerful way to attract, retain and grow their donor base.
New tools include:
With these new tools, Microsoft is delivering a robust set of solutions for end-to-end fundraising — from fundraising strategy and planning, fundraising campaign execution and measurement, gift processing and reconciliation, all the way through to gift acknowledgement.
New fundraising modeling
In addition to the AI new capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, Microsoft is developing an AI-based donor propensity model to help nonprofits identify constituents most likely to donate or engage with a campaign or cause based on predictive donor behavior. Interested nonprofits can sign up to participate in this private preview and participating nonprofits will help improve the model through contributions of anonymized data and testing. This solution is intended to be generally available later this year.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit is tailored specifically for the nonprofit sector, designed to reduce the time nonprofit groups spend managing overhead and delivering automation and efficiency on common and critical workflows. These new AI solutions are designed to help nonprofits focus on mission-critical activities and are built on Microsoft’s trusted cloud platform, Azure, which offers enhanced security, scalability and reliability. They are also integrated with Microsoft’s existing solutions for nonprofits, such as Microsoft 365 — Outlook, SharePoint and Teams — as well as Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn.
To learn more about them and sign up for updates, visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/ai-solutions.
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