Microsoft continued to slim down AI language models, unveiling its third lightweight edition which it stated offers comparable performance to rival products while being suitable for use on mobile phones.
Microsoft has launched a UK AI startup accelerator in partnership with London-based private investing platform Seedrs. The Series AI programme aims to help participating startups build and integrate AI technology. The four-week accelerator, open to startups from Seed to Series A stage, will include mentorship, resource sharing and commercialisation support. “Over the last few years, […]
Microsoft's AI lead could be the driving factor in helping it topple Amazon's dominance in cloud services.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Microsoft and Amazon’s dealings with AI start-ups, inviting comment from market players to determine if recent partnerships have the potential to hurt competition in the country.
Microsoft looks to expand its AI models' accessibility with a new, cheaper model. Microsoft has unveiled a new artificial intelligence that the tech giant boasts as a "dramatically cheaper" model, dubbed Phi-3-mini.
In a world where technology’s reach and impact continue to expand, the safety of our children in the digital realm has become a paramount concern. Microsoft, alongside other tech giants, has taken a significant step forward in this regard. They’ve teamed up with Thorn and All Tech Is Human, committing to implement robust child safety measures […]
For $700 and a $24 monthly subscription, a tiny wearable computer—the Humane AI Pin—will free you from your phone. Just tap it, talk to it, and it'll do what you ask, be it make a call, send a text, or answer questions. — Read the rest
Microsoft has more details on how it is trying to fight against hacker attacks on the guardrails to AI services after deep fake images of Taylor Swift were reportedly made in Microsoft Designer.
Upcoming quarterly reports from U.S. tech giants may show Microsoft is closing the gap on cloud-computing market leader Amazon.com as more businesses switch to its services, attracted by a clutch of generative AI features that are powered by OpenAI's technology. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has beaten rivals Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet to the market with AI services including the Copilot, a set of genAI tools that work in Microsoft's business apps, that was rolled out in...
Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was seeking comments on the AI partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, as well as between Amazon and Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority also said it wanted to hear the views of third parties on Microsoft's hiring of former employees of Inflection AI and related arrangements. Microsoft last month appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a newly created consumer AI unit and hired several employees of his...
UK regulators will scrutinize partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon to review potential AI competition issues.
British antitrust regulators are seeking views on partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon with smaller generative AI model makers.