Microsoft releases Phi-2 small language model
Better than a Llama
Microsoft Research has announced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI programme that is "small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device."
Google plans to roll out Gemini across all its products
Even Bing is outclassing it, so it has to do something
With the arrival of AI, the search engine Google has found itself in the embarrassing situation of being beaten by Microsoft’s Bing, and now the company says it will roll out its own AI Gemini across nearly its entire line of products.
Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft snub Nvidia
Moving to AMD's Instinct MI300X
Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft told an AMD investor event today that they will use AMD's newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X, as an alternative to Nvidia's expensive graphic processors.
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot
He will be back by Christmas
The marketing voles working for Microsoft have been trying to earn their cash by rebranding Bing Chat to Copilot so that it shares the same brand name as multiple other Microsoft AI products.
Windows CE is no more
And we never knew what CE ever stood for
Microsoft's dedicated OS for embedded and pocket devices, Windows CE, has reached the end of its support lifetime and is no more.
Microsoft completes acquisition of Activision Blizzard King
Record deal at $68.7 billion gets it all under one roof
Microsoft has finally managed to close the deal and has completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard King company. This puts all franchises and plenty of developers under the same roof called Xbox Game Studios, as announced by Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Gaming.
Microsoft backtracks on photo storage limits
Ducking the backlash
The software King of the World, Microsoft has backpedalled on a plan to impose photo storage limits in a user's OneDrive account.
AI Copilot does not play nice with AMD Adrenalin
I am sorry Dave those settings are wrong I will correct them for you without permission
AMD Adrenalin users of are less than happy with Microsoft after it installed AI Copilot into Windows 11 a week ago.
Microsoft adds more GPUs to Dall-E 3
Coping with demand
Software king of the world Microsoft says it will be adding more GPUs in the coming days to reduce the time taken to generate the images on its Bing Image Creator.
New Xbox Series X console details leaked
Turned mentioned in a court case
New unredacted documents from Microsoft’s court battle with the FTC have accidentally been made available online, revealing details of Vole’s new Xbox Series X console.