This article discusses Microsoft's focus on AI and its potential to drive customer acquisition. It highlights the integration advantage of Microsoft's Business Chat and the threat it poses to competitors. The article also mentions the reemergence of Windows as a canvas for AI and the excitement surrounding it. It contrasts this with Apple's potential software challenges in the AI space and the need to prioritize software improvements. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of AI as a platform shift and Microsoft's clear path to leverage and expand its base.
Artificial intelligence (AI) meeting features provided by platforms like Zoom and Otter.ai offer benefits such as automated summaries and note-taking, allowing workers to better keep track of meetings and generate follow-up actions, but they are not perfect and may encounter issues with transcription accuracy, topic categorization, and context understanding. Privacy concerns and the need for high-quality audio feeds should also be taken into consideration before using AI for meetings.
Healthcare technology company Innovaccer has unveiled an AI assistant called "Sara for Healthcare" that aims to automate workflows and offer insights to healthcare leaders, clinicians, care coordinators, and contact center representatives. The suite of AI models has been trained specifically for the healthcare context, with a focus on accuracy and addressing privacy and regulatory requirements. The AI assistant works in conjunction with Innovaccer's platform, which integrates healthcare data from various sources. The suite includes features such as instant answers to questions, help with care management, assistance with EHR administrative tasks, and streamlining contact center workflows.
Microsoft is reportedly testing the addition of AI capabilities to its old apps, including Paint and the Photos app, in an effort to modernize them. The company is also considering adding optical character recognition (OCR) to the Snipping Tool.
Microsoft is reportedly integrating its generative AI product, Copilot, into its cloud storage service, OneDrive, providing users with organizational features and more efficient file lookup, with the announcement potentially being made at the Power Platform Conference on October 3.
Apple has increased its spending on artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of conversational AI, voice-controlled automation, and multimodal AI for videos, images, and text.
Microsoft is holding a special event in New York City to discuss its AI plans, including the launch of three new Surface devices, with the Surface Laptop Studio 2 as the flagship device, and Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's head of consumer marketing, is expected to present.
Microsoft is introducing Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered companion that will provide assistance and improve productivity across Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Bing, and Edge, with capabilities such as natural language interactions, personalized search, and AI-powered shopping experiences. Copilot will roll out as part of the Windows 11 update on September 26 and will be available in various Microsoft products. Additionally, Microsoft is unveiling new Surface devices and announcing the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Chat for enterprise customers on November 1, 2023.
Microsoft announced that it will bundle its CoPilot AI into a single, unified assistant across all of its products, aiming to transform the relationship between technology and users in a new era of personal computing.
Microsoft is integrating advanced AI-powered features into its software and Windows operating system, as announced by the company's CEO.
Microsoft is introducing new AI-powered features to its SwiftKey mobile keyboard app, including AI camera lenses, AI stickers, an AI-powered editor, and the ability to create AI images, enhancing the user experience on iOS and Android.
