Here’s a quick, key summary of the key announcements from Microsoft Build 2023.
The Copilot Stack that Microsoft used to build CoPilot is now available for developers to build their own CoPilots. The stack groups Copilots and Plugin extensibility under the Apps layer and has an AI Orchestration Layer that uses Prompts & response filtering coupled with “Metaprompt”. This layers interacts with an underlying Grounding and Plugin execution Layer all of which take AI safety into account. Underlying these layers is the AI Orchestration Layer that is on top of the Foundation Models (FMs) and the AI Infrastructure Layer (aka Azure). It’s great to see that Microsoft recognizes and supports OSS FMs under the “BYO” (Bring Your Own) models.
The stack includes the following components:
GPT-powered CoPilot with plugins(!) integrated into all of Microsoft 365: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more.
GPT-powered CoPilot with plugins(!) integrated into all of Windows: Apps, Settings, and more.
Integrates with LangChain, Semantic Kernel, custom prompt templates, Vector Databases, FAISS Index, Serp API and, more tools.
Prompt Flow is integrated into Azure ML Studio:
An end-to-end analytics platform fro enterprises in the era of AI. It offers a highly integrated, easy-to-use product that offers a suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration that simplifies analytics needs without having to piece together services from different vendors. The platform is built on a Software as a Service (SaaS) foundation, offering simplicity and integration unmatched by other offerings.
The first MongoDB-compatible fully managed No-SQL offering to support Vector Search. Read More. This is a big plus for the AI era and will join PostgresQL + PGVector, Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma, Vespa and other Vector Search offerings.
