Microsoft Build 2024 Announcement: Day 1
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01 Introducing new agent capabilities in Copilot Studio ✨
Microsoft is excited to announce that copilots are taking a giant leap forward – evolving from reactive assistants to proactive independent agents.
Developers can build copilots for specific functions that respond to data and events and can autonomously complete long-running processes.
New capabilities include:
- ✅ Asynchronous Task Management: Independently orchestrates complex tasks, making decisions based on actions and user inputs.
- ✅ Long-Running Automation: Capable of managing tasks that span days or even weeks.
- ✅ Contextual Memory: Utilizes past interactions to inform future conversations.
- ✅ Continuous Learning: Monitors copilots' performance, learns from interactions, and trains further for your needs.
- ✅ Adherence to Guidelines: Operates within set human parameters and seeks assistance when needed.
These advancements open up a myriad of new use cases:
- ❇ Autonomous Operation: Copilots can function seamlessly without a chat interface.
- ❇ Process Chaining: Ability to link multiple processes to complete comprehensive tasks.
- ❇ Contextual Awareness: Draws on previous discussions to inform current processes.
- ❇ Adaptive Learning: Train your copilot to adapt to regularly changing processes.
📅 These new agent capabilities are currently available in a limited early access preview and will be released for public preview later this calendar year.
Summary
Microsoft has announced new agent capabilities in Copilot Studio, transforming copilots from reactive assistants to proactive, independent agents. These new features include asynchronous task management, long-running automation, contextual memory, continuous learning, and adherence to guidelines. This evolution allows for autonomous operation, process chaining, contextual awareness, and adaptive learning, significantly expanding potential use cases. These capabilities are in early access now and will be publicly available later this year.
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02 Introducing Team Copilot ✨
Team Copilot is not just a personal assistant; it’s a team player, actively participating and contributing as a member of your team.
With Team Copilot, you’re in command, delegating tasks and responsibilities to enhance productivity, foster collaboration, and ignite creativity across the board.
Here’s how Team Copilot can elevate your team’s workflow:
- Meeting Facilitator: Crafts agendas, keeps time, takes notes in real-time, and shares files during Teams meetings. Plus, it works with Microsoft Teams Rooms for spontaneous meeting setups.
- Group Collaborator: Extracts key insights, monitors decisions and actions, enriches discussions with online data, summarizes documents, and pinpoints unresolved issues in Teams chats.
- Project Manager: Streamlines planning, assigns tasks, and oversees deadlines in Planner, while enhancing task collaboration through Loop.
It seamlessly integrates into your collaborative ecosystem, available in Teams, Loop, Planner, and beyond.
Summary
Team Copilot is a powerful tool that enhances productivity, collaboration, and creativity within your team by acting as a meeting facilitator, group collaborator, and project manager. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, Loop, and Planner, providing comprehensive support for your team’s workflow.
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03 GPT-4o is now generally available in Azure OpenAI Service 🚀
You may have seen the latest innovation from OpenAI: GPT-4o, which showcases incredible multi-modal demos across text, vision, and audio.
- API includes support for text and image with audio support coming soon
- Dive into GPT-4o’s capabilities with the playground available in Azure OpenAI Studio
Summary
Microsoft has announced that GPT-4o, a new multi-modal model by OpenAI, is now available through Azure OpenAI Service. This model supports text and image processing, with audio support coming soon. Users can explore its features using the playground in Azure OpenAI Studio.
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04 Build Custom Copilots from SharePoint ✨
Easily create a copilot in just a few clicks, helping users access the information they need from files in seconds. This feature is grounded in the selected SharePoint and OneDrive data.
With Copilot Studio, you can extend these copilots to bring more knowledge and actions beyond SharePoint, making it simple to share them within your organization.
📝 Sign up for the Early Access Program here:
Summary
Create custom copilots from SharePoint to quickly access file information. Extend and share these copilots within your organization using Copilot Studio.
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05 New Copilot Extensions ✨
We’re making it easy for users to customize Microsoft Copilot actions and extend Copilot to your data and line of business systems.
Copilot extensions can include:
- ✅ Copilot connectors (Public Preview)
- ✅ Plugins (Public Preview)
- ✅ NEW - Your own custom copilots (Private Preview)
Summary
Microsoft has announced new Copilot extensions, including connectors and plugins in public preview, and custom copilots in private preview. Developers can use Copilot Studio or Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio to create these extensions.