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Microsoft also envisions using intelligent agents within Fluid Framework to do things like co-authoring, fetching content, providing photo suggestions, and identifying experts.Īnother new Office feature announced at the show was Microsoft Search, which “applies artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, to make search in your organization even more effective.” The new tool will use AI to propose relevant searches as soon as you click into the box, and let you control the app you're in. It will also incorporate AI technologies an example in the Build keynote showed a chat being translated into six languages simultaneously and instantly. It will let users break content from one app, say Excel, into modules that can be edited within other apps, such as Teams. The technology allows real-time, cross-app collaboration. A new dev tool announced at the show, Microsoft Graph data connect, lets coders integrate productivity data from the Microsoft Graph with their own business data securely and at scale using Azure Data Factory (Opens in a new window).įluid Framework was a major new technology for Office (as well as third-party apps) unveiled at Build. Customers also get access to their company's Microsoft Graph data, which is basically all the data produced by your company's use of the Microsoft products. The browser will also include an Internet Explorer tab mode, for use by companies with legacy business web apps that use that browser's features, and three clear privacy levels.Īt Build, Microsoft once again promoted Microsoft 365, a business offering that includes Windows, Office, and security. At Build, the company showed a new Collections feature, which smoothly lets users collect webpages, text and images in a sidebar for research and planning. Edge will offer unique capabilities to make it a worthwhile competitor to Chrome and Firefox. It's being completely rebuilt from the ground up and based on Google's more-compatible Chromium rendering code. The other Edge is of course Microsoft's web browser. A big advantage of edge computing is that it doesn't incur the latency of contacting a server over the internet. It also offers data streaming with in-database machine learning and graph capabilities. Azure SQL Database Edge is designed for lower-power computers than the big server hardware usually associated with AI. Microsoft has been talking about AI computing on the edge for a while, and at this year's Build the company announced new tools for what it calls the Intelligent Edge. A session at the conference demonstrated how new neural text-to-speech rendering could not only be indistinguishable from actual spoken language, but could also be rendering with different moods, for example, cheerful or empathetic. Speech is another area in which Microsoft is pushing AI forward-both speech synthesis and speech understanding.
The company announced ML hardware support for FPGAs, as well as ONNX Runtime support for Nvidia TensorRT and Intel nGraph. New Machine Learning (ML) tools and capabilities include a no-code visual machine learning interface, automation, and lifecycle management. Technology that came with Microsoft acquisition of Semantic Machines bolster the strategy. It's an intriguing concept, and one that will be available in the company's Bot Framework. So, rather than just using one company's AI bot, you'll have multiple bots interacting on your behalf. The company revealed a strategy for conversational AI that envisions multi-turn, multi-domain, and multi-agent experiences. All of these technologies are designed to make informed recommendations based on interpreted data. The latter includes the Content Moderator, Anomaly Detector, and a new service called Personalizer. It also has a new category of cognitive services, known as Decision. But Microsoft is all-in on AI technology, with tools like Azure Cognitive services, which can interpret audio and visual input. We usually think of Amazon and Google when it comes to artificial intelligence, and those companies are indeed doing impressive work.
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