Topic: focus on Microsoft Build developer Conference: a New era of AI hardware is about to begin

Financial Associated Press, May 22 (editor Shi Zhengcheng) on Tuesday, the American technology company Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference. Under the leadership of CEO Nadella, Microsoft's product teams once again showed amazing execution and presented at the press conferencePhonecasinofreespinsNearly 50 new products or features have been updated.

The conference lasted nearly two hours, where some new features that might be of interest to investors were briefly introduced.

Can programming rookies also develop software?

On Tuesday, Nadella demonstrated GitHub Copilot Workspace, a software that helps Xiaobai program, which is written by chatting. This will enable any novice to develop their own software, even if they have little knowledge of the programming language.

"anyone can turn an idea into code in an instant," Nadella said.PhonecasinofreespinsYou can control every part of the process. This will make programming more enjoyable and interesting. "

Microsoft plans to further polish this feature in the coming months to make it more available.

AI employees come to the stage

In a series of applications such as Microsoft's workplace collaboration software Teams, AI will no longer be a button on the toolbar, but a reliable new colleague for workers.

This new feature, called Team Copilot, will make Copilot a new member of each work team. Copilot can act as the moderator of the meeting, manage the agenda and record the minutes of the meeting in real time, and track and schedule the actions of team members after the meeting.

Copilot can also become a project manager, driving team collaboration by creating and assigning tasks, tracking deadlines, and so on.

In another product update, Microsoft also said it would launch a "AI agent" tool-similar to "AI virtual employees"-later this year, which can perform a series of trivial automation tasks such as monitoring email, helping new employees sign-in, and entering data. Microsoft is careful to stress that Copilot will not take over people's jobs, only some of the boring parts.

AI real-time video translation function

Microsoft's Edge browser will launch a real-time video translation feature in the near future. Different from the current common video subtitle translation, this product can already provide real-time simultaneous voice interpretation.

Edge's AI real-time translation will initially support a series of mainstream video sites such as Bloomberg and Reuters and mainstream news sites, and will only support two-way translation between English, Hindi, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish. Microsoft also said that it will support more websites and languages in the future.

A Snapdragon Mini computer

A mini console with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip was also launched to developers on Tuesday after a series of new laptops were unveiled yesterday. In addition to Qualcomm's chips, the Mac Mini-shaped machine also has 32GB LPDDR5x memory and 512GB SSD.

Considering that the price of this machine is 899Phonecasinofreespins.99 dollars, there is no obvious price advantage over yesterday's laptops (starting at $999). But the product doesn't seem ready to be sold to ordinary consumers, and the only way to get it is to fill out a developer-oriented form on Qualcomm's website.

Small models also need to be multimodal.

Microsoft also unveiled the Phi-3-vision model on Tuesday after updating the "small model" Phi-3 in April. As the name implies, the model can read text and view pictures, and the 4.2 billion-parameter model is compact enough to run on mobile devices. Currently, Phi-3-vision has been released in the model library of Azure.

Unlike DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, Phi-3-vision does not generate images and is mainly used to understand the contents of the images and analyze them for the user.

Cooperate deeply with Meta

Microsoft also announced on Tuesday that it would introduce "Windows Volume applications" (Windows Volumetric Apps) into Meta's Quest headset, allowing developers to extend their applications into 3D space.

Microsoft says the extension will allow users not to leave applications that support their work, while enhancing spatial understanding.

Colored eggs: Altman shows up

The finale of the whole conference was handed over to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Altman poured a pot of "chicken soup for the soul" in front of the developers.

In a conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, Altman said it had been a "crazy week" since the launch of GPT-4o last week because he had "never seen a technology adopted so quickly in such a meaningful way".

The startup mentor also stressed that his most important advice is that this is a special time, so seize the opportunity to build what you want to do, and don't wait. Altman believes that as far as entrepreneurship is concerned, this is the "most exciting moment" of the mobile Internet outbreak in 2008, or even the entire Internet era.

But Father of ChatGPT also adds that don't expect AI to do all the work for you. Artificial intelligence is a new enabler, but it doesn't automatically break business rules.