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Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman. Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday, after the board said it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” After a weekend of negotiations to potentially bring Altman back to OpenAI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced both Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team.
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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. […]
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Azure OpenAI Service Launches GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo-1106 Models
GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 are now globally available on Azure OpenAI Service, unlocking leading cost performance and generative AI capabilities for..
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Video
AI in Health
Let's dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector with our expert guest and Executive Dean from RMIT University, Karin Verspoor, who brought a wealth of knowledge in natural language processing (NLP) and biomedicine.
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Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023
Satya Nadella Keynote Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2023
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Articles
Explained: Generative AI
What do people mean when they say “generative AI,” and why are these systems finding their way into practically every application imaginable? MIT AI experts help break down the ins and outs of this increasingly popular, and ubiquitous, technology.
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Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News
The Book of News is designed to be your guide to all our announcements, making it easy for you to navigate the latest information and provide key details on the topics in which you are most interested. We are excited to share some groundbreaking new products and critical updates that help make work and life easier and more productive.
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Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Outstanding reporting on the current situation at OpenAI from Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel, informed by Karen's research for a book she is currently writing. There are all sorts of fascinating details in here that I haven't seen reported anywhere, and it strongly supports the theory that this entire situation (Sam Altman being fired by the board of the OpenAI non-profit) resulted from deep disagreements within OpenAI concerning speed to market and commercialization of their technology v.s. safety research and cautious progress towards AGI.
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Unleashing the Power of Generative AI: Azure AI Studio Leads the Way
Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio empowers AI developers with end-to-end platform to explore, build, test, and deploy solutions at scale
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Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch: Segment Anything, Fast
This post is the first part of a multi-series blog focused on how to accelerate generative AI models with pure, native PyTorch. We are excited to share a breadth of newly released PyTorch performance features alongside practical examples of how these features can be combined to see how far we can push PyTorch native performance.
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Accelerating Neurosymbolic AI with RAPIDS and Prometheux Vadalog Parallel | NVIDIA Technical Blog
As the scale of available data continues to grow, so does the need for scalable and intelligent data processing systems to swiftly harness useful knowledge. Especially in high-stakes domains such as…
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Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365 Blog
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we are announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new innovations in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Learn more.
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