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April 30, 2024
Microsoft’s AI Bet and the New Race for AI Infrastructure
By Jim Lundy Microsoft's AI Bet and the New Race for AI Infrastructure Microsoft recently reported a strong quarter with a 17% jump in revenues to $61.86B, exceeding analyst expectations with a 20% jump in net income to
February 26, 2024
Microsoft’s New Deal With Mistral AI
By Adam Pease Microsoft’s New Deal With Mistral AI Microsoft has just announced a partnership with French AI provider Mistral. This blog discusses Mistral and the implications of the deal for the gener
February 5, 2024
Microsoft and Semafor: Shaping the Future of AI-Assisted Journalism
By Adam Pease Microsoft and Semafor: Shaping the Future of AI-Assisted Journalism In a recent development, Microsoft has announced a partnership with news organization Semafor to enhance news content creation using
January 25, 2024
Microsoft Ships CoPilot and Offers New Copyright Protection
By Jim Lundy Microsoft Ships CoPilot and Offers New Copyright Protection Last week, Microsoft announced that it is making its Copilot available for Microsoft 365 for non-enterprise customers. This means eve
December 15, 2023
Microsoft Ignite in Two Words: CoPilots and GPUs
By Jim Lundy Microsoft Ignite in Two Words: CoPilots and GPUs If Microsoft did anything at this year's Ignite conference it was to double down on AI in a big way. Ignite was all about the different flavors
December 7, 2023
Generative AI Wars: Is Amazon Q ready to Compete with Microsoft and Google?
By Jim Lundy Generative AI Wars: Is Amazon Q ready to Compete with Microsoft and Google? At Amazon re:Invent, one of the biggest stories was the announcement of Amazon Q, their generative AI-based assistant. A
November 17, 2023
Microsoft Silicon—2 New Chips to Power Azure Cloud and AI
By: Craig Kennedy Microsoft Silicon—2 New Chips to Power Azure Cloud and AI Earlier this month at Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced two new custom silicon chipsThe Secret About CoPilots Microsoft Didn’t Reveal at Ignite
By Jim Lundy The Secret About CoPilots Microsoft Didn't Reveal at Ignite There is a secret that Microsoft isn’t telling about Microsoft CoPilot which reached general availability on November 1st and was highlight
November 2, 2023
Microsoft Secure Future Initiative–3 Pillars of Cybersecurity
By: Craig Kennedy Microsoft Secure Future Initiative–3 Pillars of Cybersecurity Earlier today, Brad Smith, Microsoft Vice Chair and President introduced the Secure Future Initiative, Microsoft’s latest
October 31, 2023
First Cuts: Cisco Webex Powers Up Their AI Product Story
By Jim Lundy Topic:Artificial Intelligence and Unified Communications and Collaboration, Intelligent Video Conferencing Issue: How will AI offerings, including Generative AI, impact how people collabora
July 27, 2023
Google Challenges Amazon and Microsoft with 28% Cloud Growth
By Jim Lundy Google Challenges Amazon and Microsoft with 28% Cloud Growth Google had a record quarter where its Google Cloud revenues were up 28% for a total of $8 billion. This puts them on track to challenge Amaz
July 20, 2023
Microsoft Announces Availability of CoPilot Assistant tools
By Jim Lundy Microsoft Announces Availability of CoPilot Assistant Tools This past week saw the beginning of the rollout of pricing for Generative AI Copilot offerings from both Microsoft and Salesforce. Fo
June 19, 2023
The State of Open-Source Language Models
By Adam Pease The State of Open-Source Language Models Microsoft recently announced the release of its new Orca open-source language model. This blog discusses the release of Orca and the implications of open-sourc
May 10, 2023
Google’s Duet AI Will Challenge Microsoft 365 CoPilot
By Jim Lundy Google Duet AI for Google Workspace Will Challenge Microsoft 365 CoPilot Google held its annual Google I/O developer conference today and a significant part of what they announced was Google Duet AI, a
March 29, 2023
Microsoft Security Copilot—Defending the Enterprise at the Speed of AI
By: Craig Kennedy Microsoft Security Copilot—Defending the Enterprise at the Speed of AI On Tuesday March 28th, Microsoft announced its latest use case for ChatGPT technology, Microsoft Security Copilot. Powered
March 27, 2023
Microsoft Announces Copilot X, GPT-4 Integration
By Adam Pease Microsoft Announces Copilot X, GPT-4 Integration Recently, Microsoft’s subsidiary GitHub announced a new version of the Copilot tool it offers for coding assistance and automated code assemb
March 2, 2023
What Will Microsoft Do with ChatGPT Aside from Search?
By Ken Dulaney What I Will Microsoft Do with ChatGPT Aside from Search? Before we decide what Microsoft might do with ChatGPT technology a review of what ChatGPT does is relevant. I already discussed the search im
September 22, 2022
Slack as a Digital Work Hub – Ready to Compete with Microsoft Teams?
By Jim Lundy Is Slack Ready to Compete with Microsoft Teams? Salesforce announced new capabilities this week and that it would start to position Slack as more of a Digital Work Hub this past June. These
May 22, 2020