Microsoft Ignite 2023: Azure Cobalt 100, Copilot Extension, And Upgrades To Teams

At Ignite 2023, Microsoft announced many Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure developments. Initially, the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, took the stage and reflected on how the world has changed since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT last year. Moving toward the announcements, Nadella said the company is entering into a new phase of AI: making and deploying the technology for people to use. That said, here’s everything Microsoft announced at Ignite 2023.

Microsoft Reveals Two New Chips For AI Workloads

At Ignite 2023, Microsoft revealed Azure Cobalt 100, a new Arm-based chip designed for cloud workloads. It is optimized for performance, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Further, the company also revealed Azure Maia, an AI accelerator chip for cloud-based training and inferencing for AI workloads, such as Bing, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT.

Along with these chips, there’s Azure Boost, a system that makes storage and networking faster by moving some processes off the host server on “purpose-built hardware and software.”

Copilot Is Now Available To A Host Of Services

Microsoft is also extending Copilot to more solutions. First, the company has announced a new Copilot Dashboard that provides insights like those in the Work Trend Index. Copilot is also getting personalization capabilities that help tailor responses.

IT Teams can use Copilot Studio to customize the solution by integrating business-critical data. Their day-to-day tasks can also be simplified using Copilot for Azure. Copilot for Service provides the framework’s generative AI capabilities to contact centers. Going forward, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise “will simply become Copilot.”

Teams Is Getting Several New Experiences

The popular video conferencing platform Teams also gets updates powered by Copilot, including new whiteboarding and collaborative note-taking experiences. Other features coming to Teams include live translated transcripts and portrait blur.

The biggest update is the new VR meetings experience coming to the platform in January 2024. Microsoft also teased how its generative AI model will be able to create new meeting spaces and objects in a virtual environment, unlike anything the platform has ever done.

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