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Microsoft brings the latest GPT updates to Bing

Plus Kamala Harris hosts AI execs at the White House and Biden drops by

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The Alignment
May 04, 2023

We’re wrapping up the week with a big announcement from Bing along with a visit to the White House from the top AI executives in tech.

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Here’s what we have lined up for you today -

  1. Microsoft brings the latest GPT updates to Bing

  2. Kamala Harris hosts AI execs at the White House

  3. Biden drops in on AI meeting

OpenAI has a close relationship with Microsoft. When Open AI launches something, it’s almost a given that Microsoft probably has something in the pipeline similar to them.

Microsoft has added a large set of updates to Bing and Edge search, here’s what they launched -

Open Preview - Bing no longer has a waitlist, anyone with a Microsoft account can use it.

Visual Answers - Bing will now incorporate visual answers including graphs, tables and images in bing chat. Bing image creator will also now be available in more than 100 languages. Visual search in chat is also in the works so that you can upload images as search queries.

Productivity Gains - Chat history to pick up where you left your last conversation, better screen utilisation by automatically adjusting where the sidebar should be placed, improved summarisation capabilities for long documents and soon adding context from previous chat history for more relevant answers.

Plugins - The much raved about ChatGPT plugins are coming to Bing as well. Developers will soon be able build custom plugins that will help users augment the capabilities of Bing Search within specific apps and use cases.

Microsoft’s relationship with Open AI has been extremely beneficial. One could say a majority of AI research at Microsoft is outsourced to Open AI, but now as OpenAI has began to productise its technologies it will be interesting to see how the two companies co-develop their products together.

Top AI executives at Google, Microsoft , Open AI and Anthropic among others are meeting with the US vice president to discuss AI safety, ethics and policy as a deeper portion of the economy is exposed to AI.

There’s going to be a lot of these meetings around the world with Governments in the coming months as policy makers make sense of how AI needs to be responsibly deployed for its citizens.

Around the industry -

  1. Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model

  2. Slack updates aim to put AI at the centre of the user experience

  3. AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

  4. Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital for enterprise AI startup

  5. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman discuss AGI

  6. Ashton Kutcher has launched an oversubscribed A.I. investment fund worth $240 million

  7. As generative AI finds its footing in enterprise products, how will companies charge for its use?

Product Corner -

There are way too many cool products to showcase just one !

  • Parsio : Extract valuable data from your most valuable documents

  • Holly : Your AI powered Virtual Recruiter.

  • Rotation : Transform any picture or text into a customized playlist

  • Audionotes : Voice notes to Summarized Text in seconds

  • Simbla : Revolutionary AI Platform For Creating Tailored CRM

US President Joe Biden drops in on White House AI meeting