It’s been another one of those weeks when the flow of AI news is at water cannon levels.
Arguably one of the most important relationships in AI at the moment is the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. Microsoft has made OpenAI’s technology central to its AI offerings, including all of its “Copilot” branded AI features—in Office, in its GitHub Copilot coding assistant, and its consumer-facing Copilot personal assistant, and in a new on-PC Copilot announced yesterday on the eve of its Build developer conference. Microsoft also offers OpenAI’s models on its Azure cloud computing platform, and it's by most accounts through these offerings that most AI applications companies have put into full production have been built. And it's through Microsoft’s products or services that most of us will interact with generative AI at work, at school, and at home.
