All the news from Microsoft Build 2024

Source: The Verge added 21st May 2024

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Microsoft is kicking off its three-day Build developer conference on Tuesday, May 21st, with a livestream starting at 11:30AM ET / 8:30AM PT. It’ll lead into an in-person keynote led by CEO Satya Nadella, which commences at 12PM ET / 9AM PT, followed by developer sessions that will come available to check out online.

Build is Microsoft’s developer conference where the company provides in-depth sessions for developers and professionals alike to get familiar with tools supporting new Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 features. This time, we’re expecting plenty of new AI announcements and sessions related to just-announced AI features like Recall.

Microsoft made a huge splash in the PC world on Monday announcing new Arm-powered “Copilot Plus PCs,” including a brand-new Surface Laptop and tablet. The new devices come with an emulation layer called Prism that promises seamless compatibility with x86 apps on Windows — taking a page out of Apple’s successful transition to its own M-series chips.

However, as Tom Warren wrote in his Notepad newsletter after the Surface event, “Apple’s success with the M1 was thanks to developers quickly porting apps to be fully native. Windows needs that same level of support from its developer community.” We’ll see this week if Microsoft has all the tools it needs to make that happen.

Read on for all the latest Build news.

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Highlights

  • Developers like the Windows Copilot Runtime.

    Lots of applause from the developers in the audience at Microsoft Build for the company’s new Windows Copilot Runtime. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likens this to a big moment like Win32, allowing developers to more easily build AI into their Windows apps.

    Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

  • Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments

    The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows in a transparent shell; most if not all units will be black.

    Image: Qualcomm

    Excited for an era of long-lasting powerful Windows laptops with Arm chips and 45 TOPS for AI but would rather pay less and plug into the wall? Qualcomm has just revealed a Mac Mini-esque box that’s ostensibly just for developers.

    The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one with the 4.6 TFLOP GPU — as well as 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512GB of NVMe storage, and lots of ports, all within roughly the same volume as Apple’s mini desktop.

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  • Microsoft’s two dreams.

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:

    1) Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers?

    2) In a world where we have ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on all that information?

    Nadella is positioning this wave of AI as the answer to Microsoft’s dreams.

    Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

  • Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks

    Image: The Verge

    Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for queries, it will be able to do things like monitor email inboxes and automate a series of tasks or data entry that employees normally have to do manually.

    It’s a big change in the behavior of Copilot in what the industry commonly calls AI agents, or the ability for chatbots to intelligently perform complex tasks autonomously.

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  • Microsoft Teams is adding a Slack-favorite emoji feature

    Microsoft is adding custom emoji to Teams.

    Image: The Verge

    Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Teams communications platform that enables users to upload their own custom emoji to use in reactions and messages. Announced during its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft says the new custom emoji will be available to try next month via the Teams public preview, with the goal of helping Teams users collaborate and express themselves “more creatively and authentically.”

    IT admins for businesses that use Teams will have the ability to limit which users can upload or delete custom emoji, or they can turn the feature off entirely. Once custom emoji are uploaded into Teams, they’ll only be visible within the same organization domain. Microsoft says that general availability for custom emoji is expected sometime this July.

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  • Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them

    Image: The Verge

    Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. As part of this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that the new AI-powered feature will be able to translate spoken content through both dubbing and subtitles live as you’re watching it.

    So far, the feature supports the translation of Spanish into English as well as the translation of English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In addition to offering a neat way to translate videos into a user’s native tongue, Edge’s new AI feature should also make videos more accessible to those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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  • Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

    Illustration: The Verge

    Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what’s in them.

    Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says Phi-3-vision, now available on preview, is a 4.2 billion parameter model (parameters refer to how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands) that can do general visual reasoning tasks like asking questions about charts or images. 

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  • Microsoft Build 2024 starts on May 21st

    Illustration: The Verge

    Microsoft tweeted that its annual Build conference for developers will take place in Seattle from May 21st through 23rd. The announcement tells everyone to expect to hear updates about “AI, Copilots, and more.”

    The 2023 event marked a return to the in-person portion, and this year’s event promises to take place both in Seattle and online. Last year, Microsoft ramped up AI efforts that now include tools for developers like Copilot Studio and Windows AI Studio, while its growing AI ambitions around Windows and Microsoft 365 will surely be front and center again.

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