All Major AI Announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Event 💥

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Microsoft held its annual conference for developers and IT professionals, Ignite 2023. This year’s event had a big focus on AI, Join us as we delve into the most pivotal revelations and groundbreaking announcements.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: American public sentiment on AI's future role in healthcare

• All Major AI Announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Event 💥

• AI Research: Transforming 2D to 3D in Seconds: Adobe's Breakthrough AI for 3D Modeling

• Trending AI Tool of the day: Pitch, the AI Tool that Makes PowerPoint Obsolete

• AI Image of The Day🎨: Gangs of the animal kingdom

A chart to kickstart your day

Survey: American public sentiment on AI's future role in healthcare

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MICROSOFT

All Major AI Announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Event 💥

This week, at its 2023 Ignite conference, Microsoft has unleashed a barrage of groundbreaking announcements and revelations, particularly in the realm of AI. Here are the most relevant ones:

1. Bing Chat is now Copilot

Bing Chat, the AI chatbot Microsoft launched earlier this year, has been renamed to Copilot.

Microsoft now offers Copilot as its free AI chatbot, while the paid option, Copilot for Microsoft 365, is also available. The free Copilot version can be accessed in Bing and Windows, and it now has its own dedicated domain at copilot.microsoft.com, similar to ChatGPT.

The move aims to help Microsoft compete with ChatGPT and other AI chatbots gaining popularity.

2. New Custom AI Chips Maia 100 and Cobalt 100

Microsoft unveiled two new custom AI chips designed in-house for its data centers: Maia 100 and Cobalt 100. These new chips aim to optimize AI workloads and boost performance across Microsoft's cloud services.

Maia 100 is a 5nm chip with over 100 billion transistors, specialized for training and running large AI models. Cobalt 100 is a 128-core CPU chip built on Arm architecture, focused on efficiency and performance for cloud-native workloads.

Both chips will start rolling out to Microsoft data centers in early 2024, with second-gen hardware already in development.

3. New AI tools for Copilot

Copilot for Azure - This new chatbot acts as an AI assistant for Azure users, making cloud configuration and troubleshooting easier. It can understand natural language queries and take actions in the Azure portal.

Copilot for Service - Designed for customer service teams, this AI can access knowledge bases and CRM systems to help agents answer questions faster. It provides account info, makes recommendations, and can automate tasks.

Copilot in Dynamics 365 Guides - Using computer vision and generative AI, this tool creates step-by-step instructions and diagrams projected onto the HoloLens 2 headset. Frontline workers can get hands-free help with equipment maintenance.

Copilot Studio - A new web-based platform to customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot for Service. Users can connect the AI to internal data sources, ensure certain responses, and even build their own tailored "copilots" or chatbots.

4. Azure AI Speech Text to Speech Avatar and Personal Voice

Microsoft introduced the Azure AI Speech Text to Speech Avatar, a tool that allows users to create avatar videos by uploading images and writing a script. Additionally, they announced the Personal Voice tool, which can replicate a user's voice within seconds, requiring only a one-minute speech sample as an audio prompt.

5. Expanded generative AI copyright protections

Microsoft has expanded its policy to protect commercial customers using Azure OpenAI Service. This policy includes defending and compensating customers in the event of copyright infringement lawsuits arising from Azure OpenAI Service or its outputs.

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AI RESEARCH

Transforming 2D to 3D in Seconds: Adobe's Breakthrough AI for 3D Modeling

In a major advance for AI-enabled 3D content creation, A team of researchers from Adobe Research and Australian National University have developed an AI model that can create detailed 3D models from single 2D images in just 5 seconds.

Details:

• The model is called Large Reconstruction Model (LRM)

• It uses a 500 million parameter transformer model trained on 1 million 3D objects

• LRM can generate high-quality 3D models from real photos or AI-generated images

• It has huge potential to transform and expedite 3D modeling for games, animation, industrial design, and AR/VR

The AI model has some limitations like blurry textures, but it's a major advance in the field of single-image 3D reconstruction

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Trending AI Tool

Pitch, the AI Tool that Makes PowerPoint Obsolete

PowerPoint has been the go-to presentation software for decades, but it's time for an upgrade. Pitch is an AI-powered tool that makes it easy to create beautiful, professional presentations in minutes.

This AI-powered tool allows you to save time that you would otherwise waste on design or tutorials and it also makes it easy to share your presentations with others online and offline.

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AI Image of The Day

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