At Microsoft Encourage, Microsoft’s annual occasion the place it highlights what it has achieved with completely different companions, the corporate made a number of bulletins associated to AI. 

First, it introduced pricing for its upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot providing. The function will value $30 per person per 30 days, on high of regular Microsoft 365 pricing. 

“Whereas some generative AI apps deal with a single functionality, like real-time transcription or copywriting, Microsoft 365 Copilot places 1000’s of abilities at your command. By grounding solutions in enterprise information like your paperwork, emails, calendar, chats, conferences and contacts, and mixing them together with your working context – the assembly you’re in now, the emails you’ve exchanged on a subject, the chats you had final week – Copilot delivers richer, extra related and extra actionable responses to your questions,” Frank X. Shaw, chief communications officer at Microsoft, wrote in a weblog submit. 

The corporate additionally introduced Bing Chat Enterprise, which permits firms to make use of Bing Chat internally in order that their information stays protected. Based on Microsoft, within the enterprise model chat information isn’t saved and it’s not used to coach fashions. This new function has begun rolling out at no further value for purchasers of Microsoft 365 E5, E3, Enterprise Premium and Enterprise Normal. It is going to even be obtainable as a standalone subscription for $5 per person per 30 days. 

New options have additionally been added to Microsoft Gross sales Copilot to additional empower gross sales groups to make use of AI. It now contains AI-generated alternative summaries, contextualized e-mail drafts, and assembly preparations. 

Microsoft additionally revealed the addition of course of mining capabilities to Energy Automate. It will give clients extra alternatives to optimize their processes so they’re extra environment friendly. “With Course of Mining, customers can perceive what is occurring throughout their enterprise, use AI that generates insights, app and automation ideas, and use Energy Platform to rapidly construct the options they want,” Shaw wrote. 

Since Microsoft Encourage is usually about showcasing Microsoft’s partnerships with different firms, the corporate additionally made a number of bulletins about its collaborations with companions.

It’s partnering with Meta on its open-source large-language mannequin, Llama 2. The mannequin will likely be optimized to run on Home windows and Azure clients will have the ability to deploy Llama 2 fashions there. 

It additionally introduced that the healthcare firm Epic has built-in Azure OpenAI Service into its digital well being document system. This integration offers advantages like permitting docs to discover affected person information in a conversational manner and serving to them reply to affected person messages extra effectively. 

Microsoft additionally introduced its new AI Cloud Associate Program. “In one other milestone, Microsoft Encourage marks the launch of the Microsoft AI Cloud Associate Program, the following era of our accomplice program, which empowers each accomplice to ship buyer worth whereas leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. By means of the Microsoft AI Cloud Associate Program, we’re offering companions with a complete portfolio of investments for all accomplice enterprise fashions, at each stage of maturity,” Shaw wrote.