Big Tech in battle over AI agents that can autonomously complete tasks for workers
Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft , announced the company’s new artificial intelligence functionality during a briefing on the tech giant’s upcoming plans and devices for AI on Monday.
The enhanced capabilities form part of a slew of product updates revealed at Microsoft’s annual developer conference which started on Tuesday, with Copilot emerging as a flagship product that the company hopes would drive future profits.Copilot had been “a game-changer” in “taking the drudgery out of work”, said Rajesh Jha, executive vice-president of experiences and devices at Microsoft.
The announcements are part of a push by tech groups including Google, Apple and OpenAI to create AI-powered smart assistants that can take the initiative in completing tasks for people. As part of Tuesday’s announcements, Microsoft said customers using its AI services would now be able to use OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4o, as well as its family of small language models called Phi-3, which include a new multimodal model, Phi-3-vision.
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