… With Model Council, you'll get side-by-side responses from both Anthropic and OpenAI, with a report that shows where the models agree and disagree. Both features are currently available in Microsoft 365 Copilot's Frontier program, which acts as a early access space for the company's AI innovations.
… It's also changing what AI models it uses. After being an early investor in OpenAI and a beneficiary of its GPT models, the two companies have redefined their partnership. Microsoft has now started rolling out its own in-house AI models and investing in other AI companies . …
… The company first announced that it was dialing back its Copilot branding last month, most likely in response to all the criticisms against the AI assistant. …
… That includes Jared Palmer, CoreAI's vice president of product, who's joining Xbox to work on engineering and infrastructure; Tim Allen, CoreAI's vice president of design and research, who'll now lead design at Xbox; and Evan Chaki, a general manager at CoreAI who'll be in charge of a team of engin… …
… Even as it's cracking down on AI slop, the Microsoft-owned company is careful to say that "AI-assisted" content is still welcome so long as it contains original ideas or encourages "meaningful conversation." While LinkedIn is hardly the only platform grappling with AI slop, the professional network… …
… Agentic AI will undoubtedly still be part of Microsoft's pitch, but the models the company uses and where its features are available could look very different. …
… In another corporate shift, Microsoft's former head of Azure OpenAI and AI Core infrastructure, Scott Van Vliet, is joining Xbox as Chief Technology Officer today. …