🌐Microsoft Announces New Copilot Version

ALSO: China Smuggles NVIDIA Chips

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Algot Persson
January 15, 2024

Happy Monday!

Microsoft announces Copilot Pro and China uses ingenious tactics to get NVIDIA chips

In Today's Article:

  • OpenAI to Counteract Election Misinformation

  • China gets its hands on NVIDIA chips (despite ban)

  • Microsoft launches Copilot plan

Read time: 3.5 minutes

Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot Pro Plan

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Hours after a pro version got leaked after it was found in Microsoft Code, [link] Microsoft announced Copilot Pro.

It should come as no surprise Microsoft finally found a way to monetize its popular Copilot tool, after the company in early 2023 suffered heavy losses running the GitHub Copilot:

“Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this year, the company was losing on average more than $20 a month per user, according to a person familiar with the figures, who said some users were costing the company as much as $80 a month.”

Priced at $20 a month, it’s similar in price to OpenAI’s premium version.

Key features include:

  • Advanced text writing and editing in Word and OneNote

  • Data visualization in Excel

  • Designing presentations in PowerPoint 

  • Email drafting assistance in Outlook

  • 100 daily boosts in Designer for improved image creation

  • Priority access to the latest generative AI models

  • Upcoming Copilot GPT Builder for creating topic-specific Copilots

🚀 In Today’s News

China Acquires NVIDIA Chips

Chinese military and academic bodies have been buying Nvidia chips, essential for AI development, despite U.S. export bans. These transactions, facilitated by an underground market, involved banned high-end chips like A100 and H100. The buyers, including top universities and restricted entities, obtained the chips from small, largely unknown Chinese suppliers. This situation reflects the challenge of completely cutting off China from advanced U.S. technology and highlights China's reliance on these imports for AI advancements, despite efforts to develop local alternatives. Nvidia adheres to export control laws, and U.S. authorities are working to close loopholes in these restrictions.

OpenAI Innovates To Counteract Misinformation In Elections

OpenAI is implementing measures to prevent its AI products, including ChatGPT and Dall-E 3, from being misused for misinformation, especially in the context of significant upcoming elections. It announced new tools to attribute and verify content generated by its software. This includes embedding provenance information in images created by Dall-E 3 and releasing an image-detection tool with high accuracy for identifying AI-generated images. For ChatGPT, OpenAI plans to provide real-time information with source attribution for current events. The company is also discussing content licensing deals with major media companies to ensure transparency and trustworthiness in the information provided by its AI tools.

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