MS Azure, OpenAI's First Integration of 'GPT-4o'... Altman Also Appears

Microsoft (MS) has integrated OpenAI's latest AI model, 'GPT-4o (Po-o),' developed by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, into its cloud service Azure AI. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appeared at MS's official announcement event, reaffirming the close relationship between the two companies.

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Satya Nadella, MS CEO, announced on the 21st (local time) at the annual developer conference 'Build 2024' held in Redmond, Washington, that "All Azure AI users will be able to use GPT-4o starting today."

GPT-4o is a multimodal AI model first unveiled by OpenAI on the 13th, characterized by its ability to engage in real-time voice conversations with users, unlike previous models that only communicated via text. It is available through Azure AI Studio and the application programming interface (API).

Rajesh Jha, MS Vice President, stated, "More than 50,000 companies are using Azure AI," adding, "Now users can develop their own AI models called Copilot using GPT-4o to create applications that respond to images, voice, and text." On stage, a demonstration showed interaction with Copilot while playing a game.

This year's Build focused on showcasing various upgraded versions of Copilot for developers. A representative feature is 'Team Copilot,' which allows teams to collaboratively use Copilot. Scheduled to be released to enterprise customers in the second half of the year, Team Copilot enables management of meeting agendas, summarization of key information, and note-taking within MS's meeting app, Teams. Additionally, 'Copilot Extensions' were unveiled, allowing the expansion of Copilot's capabilities using third-party technologies.

Alongside this, MS introduced three small AI models named 'Pi 3' Small, Medium, and Vision. These models can be embedded in devices to provide AI responses through images and text even in environments without internet connectivity. As previously announced, MS also launched 'Cobalt 100,' a high-performance computing central processing unit (CPU) developed in-house and first revealed in November last year.

Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft (MS, right in the photo), and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on the stage of Microsoft Build 2024 [Image source=MS online streaming capture]

Sam Altman attracted attention by appearing on stage at MS's Build 2024 event. Altman, together with Kevin Scott, MS Chief Technology Officer (CTO), introduced OpenAI's AI models directly and emphasized the ongoing collaboration between the two companies to build supercomputers. He evaluated GPT-4o by saying, "I have never seen technology adopted so rapidly in such a meaningful way." He also stressed, "The most important thing is that (AI) models will become increasingly smarter," and "These developments will continue."

In his keynote speech at Build, Nadella said, "MS has dreamed of two things," posing the questions, "Not whether we understand computers, but whether computers can understand us. In a world flooded with endless information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively with all this information?" He identified the AI wave as the answer and emphasized, "We are at a pivotal moment in history." Build 2024 is being held simultaneously online and offline until the 23rd.

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