04 May 2023: Bing went into open preview, just sign into Bing with your Microsoft Account and try the new GPT-4 powered. It's a paradigm shift, it will fundamentally change how you consume information on the internet - you are in for a treat!
🥳 It has made the research process for writing this post much quicker and more enjoyable.
AI is not new for Microsoft, but as the graph shows, the public exposure has been limited until ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022 - then boom, it seems to come from nowhere - did it?
March 30, 2016, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft makes the direction clear:
“As an industry, we are on the cusp of a new frontier that pairs the power of natural human language with advanced machine intelligence. At Microsoft, we call this Conversations as a Platform, and it builds on and extends the power of the Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Windows platforms to empower developers everywhere.”
That was 7 years ago!
Back when OpenAI just was founded and the important “Attention is all you need” paper was released by Google researchers. Insiders from Microsoft and OpenAI reveal that the years between 2017 and 2019 were a whirlwind of innovation, experimentation, and collaboration.
GPT-1 was released in 2018, and Microsoft was confident enough to place a $1 billion bet on OpenAI in July of 2019.
📣 In May 2019, Microsoft kicks off a more open and frequent communication on AI by sharing its updated vision for conversational AI:
“Copilot will eventually power conversations across all of Microsoft’s products and services.”
From 2019 and onwards, Microsoft publishes AI news on their website more often, still not extensively on conversational applications:
📌 May 25, 2021: Introduction of the first product features powered by GPT-3, integrating it into Microsoft Power Apps.
📌 October 12, 2022: rollout of DALL-E 2, starting with Designer and Bing Image Creator.
💥 Then boom (GPT-3…) “Conversion as a platform” is becoming a reality with AI-powering more and more apps:
📌 February 3, 2023: Viva Sales gets AI seller experience.
📌 February 7, 2023: Bing and Edge get AI-powers.
📌 March 15, 2023: Dynamics 365 Copilot is introduced.
📌 March 16, 2023: Microsoft 365 Copilot is announced.
📌 March 22, 2023: GitHub Copilot X evolves.
📌 April 20, 2023: Viva AI functionality is Viva Engage, Viva Learning, and Viva Topics.
🌟 With this boost in GPT integrations in the big office productivity tools, I believe that the revolution among “normal users” will start during late Q3 to Q4 of 2023. Exciting times
💡What are your thoughts around this? How will you make sure that your organization realizes the promised boost in productivity? Do you have any story from Microsoft/OpenAI collaboration in the early days (2016-2017) to share?
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