Microsoft Unveils Enhanced Copilot Features: AI Assistant Empowered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo Model

 

Microsoft asserts that the GPT-4 Turbo model will empower Copilot to handle intricate and extended tasks with enhanced capabilities.

Under a unified brand, Microsoft has rebranded Bing Chat as Copilot, consolidating its AI services.  Photo credit : Microsoft

 

Over the past year, Microsoft has enhanced its AI-driven offerings by integrating artificial intelligence tools into Bing Search, Windows, and its Office 365 suite, encompassing Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Recently, the company announced the unification of its AI services, including the Bing Chat AI chatbot, under a single umbrella: Microsoft Copilot. Now, Microsoft unveils a myriad of new features slated for Copilot in 2024.

Microsoft, celebrating a year of Copilot in its blog, announced plans to enhance the AI companion with advanced capabilities in the coming weeks. OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4 Turbo, will power Copilot, enabling it to handle more complex and extended tasks. The Windows maker revealed that the model is presently undergoing testing with select users and will soon be integrated across Copilot services. This implies that the Copilot AI companion (formerly Bing Chat) on the Web, Windows, and other Microsoft services will operate on GPT-4 Turbo.

Furthermore, Copilot has incorporated the new DALL-E 3 model for image generation, enabling it to produce richer images that align more closely with user prompts. The upgraded image generation capabilities are now available and can be accessed by visiting bing.com/create or instructing Copilot to generate an image.

Microsoft revealed that Edge users would soon gain the ability to write text based on web pages. Through Inline Compose with the rewrite menu, users can select a block of text on any website and instruct Copilot to rewrite it. Additionally, the company is broadening visual search capabilities by integrating GPT-4 with vision, Bing image search, and web search data. This upcoming feature, named Multi-Modal with Search Grounding, promises enhanced image understanding for user queries.

Finally, Microsoft is actively developing a Code Interpreter feature and a Deep Search tool for Bing. The Code Interpreter is designed to execute more accurate calculations, coding, data analysis, visualization, math, and other tasks, as claimed by Microsoft. The company is currently soliciting feedback on the Code Interpreter and plans to widely roll it out soon.

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Deep Search, on the other hand, aims to enhance Bing’s search results for intricate topics. Accessible as a button beside the Bing Search bar, this tool is designed to provide more optimized and relevant search outcomes by expanding queries into comprehensive descriptions.

Last month, Microsoft unveiled the expansion of its AI assistant, Copilot, to Windows 10, following its initial availability on Windows 11. Additionally, the tech giant introduced its latest AI computing chips, Maia and Cobalt, during the Ignite developer conference in November.In September, Microsoft Copilot was initially integrated into Windows 11 through an update. This update also introduced AI functionalities to Paint and Snipping Tool.

In September, Microsoft Copilot was initially integrated into Windows 11 through an update. This update also introduced AI functionalities to Paint and Snipping Tool.

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