The following is customized from my remarks at Microsoft Build this morning.
Developer conferences are particular locations, particularly when platform shifts are within the air. So, it’s thrilling to have the ability to come again to Microsoft Build 2023 with a way of anticipation that one thing huge is unfolding round us.
I’ve all the time liked Steve Jobs’ description of computer systems as “bicycles for the mind.” It’s an exquisite metaphor, and I feel it captures the essence of what computing is. And then, final November, we received an improve. With the launch of ChatGPT, computing went from a “bicycle for the mind” to a “steam engine for the mind.”
And now, as builders, we look ahead to what we are able to do on this new period. Every layer of the expertise stack shall be modified perpetually.
At Build this yr, now we have greater than 50 bulletins, and I wish to spotlight 5 of them.
Bringing Bing to ChatGPT
ChatGPT is the fastest-growing shopper app we’ve ever seen. And we at the moment are bringing Bing to ChatGPT because the default search expertise, so we are able to present solutions which might be timelier, extra up-to-date, and grounded by search and internet knowledge. We’re excited to launch this integration in ChatGPT Plus beginning as we speak and to make it out there to the free tier quickly. And that is simply the beginning of what we plan to do with our companions at OpenAI to deliver the perfect of Bing to the ChatGPT expertise.
Windows Copilot
Second, we’re bringing Copilot to the largest canvas of all: Windows. This goes to make each Windows consumer an influence consumer, serving to them take motion, customise their settings, and seamlessly join throughout their favourite apps:
Copilot stack and copilot extensibility
Next, we’ve constructed our copilots with a standard architectural stack, and we at the moment are making it out there so that everybody can construct their very own AI apps and copilots—from the AI infrastructure, to basis fashions, to the AI orchestration, all the way in which as much as your copilot and its extensibility.
Whether it’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Microsoft Copilots, or your copilots, they’ll all share the identical extensibility mannequin. This is likely one of the strongest issues for any developer: to have the ability to write a plugin as soon as and have it attain billions of customers throughout all of those floor areas.
And we’re already seeing improbable momentum:
Yusuf Mehdi, CVP and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, confirmed all of this in motion:
Azure AI Studio
Our new Azure AI Studio is the full-lifecycle developer toolchain for the brand new period of AI. You can practice your individual fashions, floor AI fashions—akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4—by yourself knowledge, create immediate workflows, and extra. It additionally contains built-in assist for AI security.
We’ve been at work on AI security for years. We have AI rules, which now we have translated right into a core set of processes that we implement throughout our engineering stack, in addition to compliance and oversight. But the actual precedence is to construct it all through the complete toolchain, and that’s what we’re doing with Azure AI Studio:
Microsoft Fabric
Every AI app begins with knowledge. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce Microsoft Fabric. It’s the largest launch of a knowledge product from Microsoft for the reason that launch of SQL Server.
It unifies compute and storage, the product expertise, governance, and the enterprise mannequin, throughout all of the various kinds of analytics workloads. And this unification, on the finish of the day, is what I feel will gasoline the subsequent era of AI functions:
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As builders, one of many issues that we should always ask ourselves is: Why will we construct expertise?
The optimistic relationship between expertise and financial development has been evident for a very long time. But it’s not simply financial development. We need lifespans to go up. We need schooling, prosperity, and way of life to go up—all over the place. That’s why we construct. That’s why we innovate. That’s why expertise exists. It’s not expertise for expertise’s sake. It is for that broad impression.
For me, this all got here collectively once I was visiting India earlier this yr. I had an opportunity to see an instance of an AI assistant, constructed on this next-generation AI, that will assist Indian villagers achieve simpler entry to authorities companies. It had a profound impression on me. And so, I wish to depart you with this video that epitomizes what you, as builders, can do within the days, weeks, months, and years to come back: