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A new strategic partnership was announced on November 19 by Microsoft, Weaverda and the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Anthropic is deploying its fast-growing Claude artificial intelligence model to the computer-supported Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, which will significantly expand the accessibility of the Claude model and provide more extensive model options and new capabilities for Azure corporate clients. Anthropic undertakes to purchase $30 billion

On November 5, Microsoft launched its first self-study AI image generation model, MAI-Image-1, in October of this year, and today announced its application to Bing Image Creator and Copilot Auto Express (with the temporary exception of the EU). Mustafa Suleyman, Head of Microsoft AI Department, described the model as “excellent” in producing images of food, natural landscapes, artistic light and factual details. Microsoft watch..

On October 25th, according to TechCrunch, Microsoft officially launched the new AI image "Mico" at the fall launch this week. The design was seen as a return to modernization of the classic assistant "Clippy". Microsoft states that Mico is a virtual, customized image that "hears, responds, and reflects user interaction through colour changes". Mico defaults to be enabled in voice mode, and if the user clicks several times, it can trigger the egg to become "Clippy". The function is now the first in America..

On October 2, according to CNBC, Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Kevin Scott indicated on Wednesday, local time, that Microsoft's future plan was to use self-study chips mainly in its data centres. This is expected to reduce Microsoft's dependence on mainstream chip manufacturers like Weidar and AMD. Semiconductors, as well as servers located inside data centres, are central to the development of artificial intelligence models and applications. At present, the technology giant, Young Weidar, has a dominant position in this area with its graphic processor (GPU), with a relatively small market share of the competition AMD. No, no, no

On September 26th, according to a foreign media report tonight, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Sulaiman warned that AI might be strong enough to require military-level intervention to stop. Sleiman stressed the importance of being able to audit and regulate these complex capabilities to prevent them from going out of control. He said: “We should not panic, regulation is necessary, but it must be done in the right way at the right time. If AI has the ability to adapt its own code, set its own targets, act independently and accumulate resources, it will become an extremely powerful system..

On September 25, according to The Verge, Microsoft will introduce the Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 AI models in Microsoft 365 Copilot, which means that Copilot's model selection is no longer limited to OpenAI and users can use Antropic directly in Researchher and Microsoft Copilot Studio..

News from September 17, Windows Latest published an article yesterday, September 16, reporting that Microsoft is introducing a full memory management function for Copilot and plans to add a Google Drive connector. 1AI quotes Boven, Copilot, who had previously provided personalized experience, was unable to manage memory as comprehensively as ChatGPT. The new version will allow users to enable memory functions on personal data pages and directly add and delete the memory memory of AI in future versions, thus allowing interaction..

Sept. 3 - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has been pushing hard this year to negotiate deep discounts with technology vendors as part of its "OneGov" acquisition strategy. The strategy aims to consolidate the purchasing power of federal agencies to drive down product prices. Recently, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies have announced that they will offer similar deep discounts to U.S. government agencies. Among them, OpenAI plans to offer ChatGPT Enterprise Edition to all federal executive branch employees over the next year for as little as $1 per agency...

August 31 news, technology media Windows Latest yesterday (August 29) released a blog post, reported that Microsoft in Copilot Labs launched a new AI voice generation tool Copilot Audio Expressions, can be Emotive and Story two modes to generate more emotional English voice. Note: Copilot Audio Expressions is an AI voice generation tool that makes the output audio closer to the real...

On Thursday, August 29, Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence division officially launched its first two homegrown AI models -- the MAI-Voice-1 voice model and the MAI-1-preview general-purpose model. According to Microsoft, the new MAI-Voice-1 voice model requires only a single GPU to generate a minute-long audio in less than a second, while the MAI-1-preview model "gives users a glimpse of Copilot's future functionality". Currently, Microsoft has made the MAI-Voice-...

August 27 news, technology media marktechpost on August 25 published a blog post, reported that Microsoft released open source text-to-speech (TTS) model VibeVoice-1.5B, which can generate up to 90 minutes at a time, up to four different speakers of the natural voice, and support cross-language and song synthesis. In terms of architecture, VibeVoice-1.5B is based on the Qwen2.5 language model with 1.5B parameters, combining acoustic (Acoustic) and semantic (Semantic) bi-partitioning ...

August 11 - Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 (and Windows 10) now supports Smart Mode powered by GPT-5. The feature has been rolling out since August 7 and is now widely available in the U.S. and elsewhere. Windows Latest testing has found that the write box in the Copilot app automatically recognizes new models through the "network routing" feature. While the Copilot app itself is a native app that primarily uses WinUI (...

August 9, 2011 - In a blog post published today (August 9), tech media outlet Windows Central reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has slammed Microsoft's multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, calling it a betrayal of OpenAI's nonprofit roots and a "de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft. In his lawsuit, Musk emphasized that OpenAI is a "de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft. In his lawsuit, Musk emphasized that OpenAI's original promise to develop general artificial intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all humanity has now been replaced by a Microsoft-led quest to maximize profits. This shift is seen by Musk as a "fundamental betrayal" and is...

On July 31, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that GitHub Copilot, the AI programming assistant from Microsoft's GitHub, has surpassed 20 million "cumulative historical users" during its latest earnings call. This means that about 5 million people have tried the tool for the first time in just the past three months, after GitHub announced 15 million users in April of this year. 1AI notes that despite the rapid growth in users, Microsoft and GitHub...

July 31 news, technology media NeoWin yesterday (July 30) published a blog post, reported that Microsoft plans to introduce "intelligent" mode in Copilot, without the need for users to manually switch, will be based on the task, automatically adjust the speed and depth of thinking. Note: Copilot currently offers the following three modes: Quick Response: response time of about 2~3 seconds, can quickly answer the user's daily questions; more in-depth thinking: response time of 30 seconds, mainly suitable for more complex tasks; contemplative study: response time of 10 minutes ...

On Monday, July 29, local time, Microsoft announced a new Copilot Mode (Experimental Mode, currently Windows/Mac only) for the Edge browser, which Nadella said "is the first step in reinventing our browser for the AI era". Similar to Perplexity's Comet browser, Microsoft has integrated an AI intelligence into the Edge browser. When this mode is turned on, Edge activates a new AI feature: instead of passively waiting for a user to click a button, it predicts what the user will do...

July 26, technology media NeoWin published a blog post yesterday (July 25), reporting that Microsoft has launched Copilot Appearance, giving AI chatbots a visual character with expressions, reactions and emotions. Note: Microsoft is only inviting users in the U.S., U.K., and Canada to try out Copilot Appearance, and promises to expand to other countries and regions around the world as soon as possible. Copilot already has regular conversational capabilities, but previously lacked any visual cues or non-verbal communication, leaving users with only abstract animations on their screens. And now...

July 11 - Technology media NeoWin published a blog post yesterday (July 10), reporting that Microsoft has introduced Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning small language model that focuses on improving the mathematical and logical reasoning capabilities of end-side AI models. The main advantage of Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning is its ability to introduce advanced reasoning capabilities in under-resourced scenarios such as edge devices, mobile applications and embedded systems. In terms of architecture, Phi-4-mini-flash...

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- After Microsoft announced last week that it would lay off 9,000 employees, launching its second major layoff of the year, the company is asking its remaining salespeople to become more productive with the help of artificial intelligence, according to The Information. According to attendees, Travis Walter, Microsoft's head of SMB sales operations for the Americas, said at a staff meeting on Monday, "We all need to use AI tools." Walter recommended to employees Microsoft's internal AI tools designed to help salespeople get up to speed faster...

July 2, 2011 - Tech media outlet bleepingcomputer published a blog post yesterday (July 1) reporting that Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code under the MIT license. This means that the development community can gain insight into the complete implementation of the chat-based coding assistant, including details on the implementation of the "Intelligent Body Mode," the contextual data sent to the Large Language Model (LLM), and the design of the system prompts. Microsoft has made the G...

July 1, 2011 - Microsoft Corp. yesterday (June 30) published a blog post announcing the launch of a new AI tool, Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), which beat 21 experienced doctors from the U.S. and U.K. in diagnosing complex cases. Note: The MAI-DxO tool integrates a number of well-known AI models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek, but the best performer was ...

June 30 news, according to Business Insider 27 reported, Microsoft developer tools division president Julia Liuson recently sent an internal email, asking supervisors at all levels in the evaluation of employee performance, the use of GitHub Copilot and other internal AI tools into account. Liuson said that AI has become a centerpiece of Microsoft's daily work, and like teamwork, data-driven thinking, and communication skills, using AI is no longer optional, but a basic requirement for every position. She noted that whether employees are using AI effectively...

A few days ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was interviewed by YC President Chen Jiaxing, in which the former introduced his various views on AI. In the interview, Chen Jiaxing mentioned that "AI has been underestimated", and Satya responded that the power of AI to help people at the grassroots level has been seriously underestimated. Satya further said that he had seen an Indian farmer obtaining agricultural subsidies through AI during the GPT-3/3.5 era, and therefore he believes that AI should be massively promoted in terms of diffusion speed and practical application, so that more people can have a better understanding of AI and its application. ...

June 24, 2011 - Microsoft today announced the availability of Mu, a new device-side mini-language model built into Windows 11. The model is designed to provide users with a smarter and more natural language interaction experience, further optimizing the search function in system settings. Last year, Microsoft unveiled Copilot + PCs with dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) with more than 40 TOPS of computational power.These PCs were equipped with Phi - Silica, an on-device language model for Microsoft's first-party apps as well as...