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11 月 21 日消息，微软昨日（11 月 20 日）发布博文，宣布以公开预览版的形式，发布了 AI Shell 命令行工具。 AI Shell 简介 该工具旨在通过 AI 智能简化编码、排查错误和自动化工作流程，为开发者和 IT 专业人员提供智能化的命令行体验，标志着微软在 AI 集成战略上的又一重大进展。 AI Shell 的核心是 Azure OpenAI Agent 和 Copilot i…

微软在举办的 Ignite 大会上宣布了一系列新功能，旨在进一步提升 Microsoft 365 Copilot 的智能化水平。 其中最引人注目的是 Copilot Actions，该功能现已进入私人预览阶段。这项功能允许用户通过简单的提示，自动完成重复性的日常任务，如总结 Teams 会议、生成周报、甚至准备会议材料等。Copilot Actions 被设计成用户只需一次性设置，即可让 AI 自…

硅谷初创公司 d-Matrix 周二宣布，其首款人工智能芯片开始出货，旨在提供聊天机器人和视频生成等服务。 d-Matrix 迄今已筹集超过 1.6 亿美元（当前约 11.58 亿元人民币）的资金，其中包括微软风险投资部门的投资。该公司表示，早期客户正在测试样品芯片，预计明年将全面出货。 总部位于加州圣克拉拉的 d-Matrix 并未透露具体客户名称，但表示超微计算机（Super Micro Co…

微软宣布将举办一场名为“零日探索”（Zero Day Quest）的线下黑客大会，旨在鼓励研究人员发现影响云计算和人工智能工作负载的软件中的高危安全漏洞。 微软安全响应中心工程副总裁汤姆・加拉格尔（Tom Gallagher）表示：“这个新的黑客活动将是同类活动中规模最大的，我们将额外提供 400 万美元（IT之家备注：当前约 2893.8 万元人民币）的奖金，用于奖励对高影响力领域，特别是云计算…

据 NHK 报道，美国科技巨头微软在东京开设了其日本首个研发中心，专注于将机器人技术与人工智能相结合，11 月 18 日举行了启用仪式。 该研发中心名为微软亚洲研究院东京分院，是微软在全球开设的一系列技术实验室中的最新一个。 据了解，该实验室计划专注于所谓的具身人工智能在制造业、医疗保健和其他行业的应用，还将与日本主要公司和大学合作。 微软表示，该公司对日本在机器人技术方面的专业知识印象深刻。 微…

美联社11日报道称，梵蒂冈城国和美国科技企业微软当天宣布，在双方合作下，用AI“复刻”的数字版圣彼得大教堂正式上线。 “圣彼得大教堂”体验项目是梵蒂冈、Iconem（一家专门从事文化遗产数字化服务的初创公司）和微软的合作成果，旨在为人们提供前所未有的机会探索梵蒂冈城最著名的教堂。游客将能够通过两个 AI 驱动的沉浸式展览和一个交互式网站来体验大教堂。 该项目是为了庆祝 2025 年的“禧年”而启动…

科技媒体 mwpro 11 月 12 日 发布博文，报道称根据 Microsoft 365 更新路线图，微软计划 12 月中旬为 Copilot 引入新控制选项，可以让用户控制是否将网络搜索查询发送到 Microsoft Bing。 用户可以通过新的控制选项禁用或启用网络搜索，该选项可以从“...”菜单访问，IT之家附上截图如下： 如果用户禁用网络搜索，他们将被通知 Copilot 的回复将不包括…

On November 4, Microsoft announced the launch of its Generative AI Accelerator program, which aims to nurture the UK's most prominent AI startups and help them succeed in the future. In partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft's development platform GitHub, the program provides resources and opportunities for companies looking to build, scale and expand generative AI products and services. It runs from January to early March 2025, and is officially said to be tailored for UK AI startups that have already received seed funding and are looking to grow further. According to reports, Microsoft launched the program...

Recently, a group of tech giants and venture capitalists issued a joint statement opposing SB1047, a bill introduced by California Senator Scott Wiener. The bill, which aims to strengthen the regulation of artificial intelligence, has sparked strong opposition from the tech industry. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, founding partners of Andreessen Horowitz, along with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith ...

Technology media maginative published a blog post on October 29th, reporting that Microsoft's code-hosting platform Github has launched Spark, which allows users to build sophisticated application features by simply describing them in everyday language. Instead of writing code and deep programming expertise, users can use the Spark tool to explain in detail the features of the application they want to develop, from hosting to data storage, and the Spark tool handles all the complex technical details automatically. While describing the application idea, users can see the application building process in real time. Users can...

Microsoft (microsoft) is a global leader in information technology, offering a wide range of products and services, and dominating the personal computer software sector. Microsoft has a wide range of product lines, including operating systems (e.g., Windows), office software (e.g., Office), AI tools (e.g., New Bing, Copilot Designer), browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer), cellular devices, handhelds, gaming consoles (e.g., XBOX), and cable TV, as well as a variety of development tools and server products. Microsoft services...

Oct. 23 - Microsoft and OpenAI have announced that they're offering up to $10 million (currently about Rs. 71.295 million) in grants to select media organizations to encourage them to experiment with AI tools in the newsroom. The grants include $2.5 million in cash and $2.5 million worth of Microsoft and OpenAI software and enterprise credit. The news comes as the companies continue to face a series of copyright lawsuits, including from The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw St...

The Wall Street Journal has exclusive information that Microsoft is in talks with OpenAI for a $14 billion investment stake. In addition to equity, Microsoft as OpenAI's largest shareholder, how much actual control in corporate governance and development after its transformation is also the focus of negotiations. Especially after Microsoft withdrew from OpenAI's board of directors, the whole negotiation process was very complicated and cumbersome. In order to better clarify these, both sides brought financial negotiators into the field, Microsoft looked for Morgan Stanley, OpenAI looked for Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street Journal said that the equity distribution was the reason OpenAI transitioned from a nonprofit to a for-profit...

According to the first financial report on October 17, a number of developers received an email from Microsoft saying that due to local regulatory requirements, Microsoft Azure OpenAI service will be shut down on October 21, and in the future in mainland China, only enterprise customers can subscribe to Azure's OpenAI service. Most developers received the email on the morning of the 17th. Some developers said, "This is the only window for individuals to use OpenAI in China in a compliant manner, but now it is also closed." At the same time, some developers were dissatisfied with Microsoft's "four-day processing time". In response to this...

Microsoft and South Korean telecom company KT Corp. announced a partnership at the end of September, committing 2.4 trillion won (currently about 12.528 billion yuan) over the next five years to boost AI, cloud services, and infrastructure development in South Korea. The two companies plan to roll out customized AI models based on Microsoft's multilingual GPT-4o in the first half of 2025, leveraging KT's datasets around Korean culture and industry. The models will be used for KT's internal and consumer-facing applications, such as customer service chatbots, and can also be used to provide...

Microsoft's official Azure X account posted last night to "show off" its new gear: the company has gotten its hands on an AI server powered by NVIDIA's GB200 superchip, making it the first of the world's cloud service providers to use the Blackwell architecture. In March, NVIDIA unveiled its most powerful AI acceleration card, the GB200, at the GTC 2024 developer conference, which utilizes the next-generation AI graphics processor architecture, Blackwell, etched using TSMC's 4-nanometer (4NP) process. bla...

Following Microsoft's introduction of AI keys for Windows 11 devices, Google is now adding AI-enabled physical keys exclusively for Chromebook devices. As reported earlier, Google and Samsung last night unveiled a Galaxy Chromebook Plus laptop that features a new Quick Insert physical key on the keyboard, which is claimed to be the first AI-enabled Chromebook model. The Quick Insert key is located on the laptop's T...

In a blog post published on October 1, tech media outlet Windows Latest reported that Microsoft has launched a new news podcast feature called "Copilot Daily" that takes a page from Perplexity AI's Discover Daily. Discover Daily Perplexity AI's Discover Daily is an AI-generated podcast that goes live once a day and is about 8 minutes long, with two AI hosts, hosted by Elev...

In a Sept. 27 press release, Microsoft announced that it is officially opening up Copilot in OneDrive for the web for business users who have licensed Copilot, meaning users can explore new ways to work with AI documents. Copilot in OneDrive's skills include: Generating summaries for large files Copilot can generate summaries of documents for users, saving time finding key points and helping users focus on what matters most. Compare differences in multiple documents Without opening a file, Cop...

Microsoft will hold a "wave 2" Copilot event at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on September 16 (23:00 Beijing Time on September 16), hosted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Vice President of AI at Work Jared Spataro, which will focus on "the next phase of Copilot innovation." It is understood that the event will be held on LinkedIn and focus on the business aspects of Microsoft's Copilot product.

On September 1, local time, according to AFP, Microsoft Vice President Vik Singh said in an interview, "Frankly speaking, what is really missing today (generative AI) is the ability to proactively say 'Hey, I'm not sure, I need help' when the model is not sure (whether its own answer is accurate)." Since last year, Microsoft, Google and its competitors have been rapidly deploying generative AI applications such as ChatGPT and Gemini, which can generate a variety of content on demand and give users an illusion of "omniscience". Although the generation...

Microsoft announced that they plan to launch the controversial Recall AI feature for Windows Insiders in October. In fact, as early as June this year, Microsoft planned to release this feature with Copy Plus PC, but they had to postpone it due to security issues. The Recall feature is actually very interesting. It can screenshot most of what you see on your computer, and then you can easily search and find items you have viewed before. There is also a timeline feature that allows you to review your work on a certain day,…

Microsoft Azure AI Speech Service allows developers to build multi-language generative AI speech applications. Azure AI Speech Service has recently launched a text-to-speech avatar feature that can convert simple text into natural human speech videos. Today, Microsoft announced the full launch of the Text to Speech Avatar feature. This new feature enables developers to create personalized avatars for their users. The output video resolution of the service is 1920 x 1080 and 25 frames per second. IT Home attached examples are as follows: Text to …

Microsoft has released the Phi-3.5 series of AI models, the most noteworthy of which is the launch of the first hybrid expert model (MoE) version of the series, Phi-3.5-MoE. The Phi-3.5 series released this time includes three lightweight AI models: Phi-3.5-MoE, Phi-3.5-vision and Phi-3.5-mini. They are built based on synthetic data and filtered public websites, with a context window of 128K. All models can now be used on Hugging Face as M…