To help developers build AI effectively, securely and responsibly, Microsoft has announced a large set of updates and new initiatives.
At today’s 2023 Build conference, Microsoft announced a large set of updates and new initiatives to help developers build AI.
The exhaustive list of updates is underpinned by a Microsoft effort to enable any organization to build its own copilots for AI. Microsoft first started building out its AI copilot efforts with GitHub Copilot in 2021 — and now wants to dramatically expand the copilot landscape.
As part of the push, Microsoft announced new plugin capabilities for its copilot services that enable more AI extensibility to connect with different services. The new Azure AI studio service will help developers to build and deploy copilots and will also make use of the new Azure AI catalog model that will include both closed and open-source models. Not the platforms; what devs do with them
Copilot capabilities will also be enhanced with Azure machine learning (ML) prompt flow technology to help build complex chains for prompts for AI workflows. Furthermore, Microsoft is taking aim at responsible AI with the introduction of the Azure AI content safety service
During a keynote session at Build, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott could hardly contain his excitement about what the new AI capabilities will help developers to do. Scott said that what makes platforms great isn’t the foundational infrastructure, it’s the things that developers and individuals do with platforms.
