Subj : Microsoft really wants your business to use more AI
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Jul 19 2023 11:00:04

Microsoft really wants your business to use more AI

Date:
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:39:19 +0000

Description:
Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise are here for your 
business to enjoy - but it will cost you.

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Following the recent success of its updated and AI-powered Bing browser , 
Microsoft has announced at its annual Inspire conference that enterprise 
customers will finally be able to get their own, secure version of the AI 
writer . 

Much like the closed-in OpenAI Service that Microsoft announced earlier this 
year for its US Government customers, Bing Chat Enterprise promises to 
protect everything that both goes in and comes out. Bing Chat for enterprises 

During the announcement, Redmond confirmed that Bing Chat Enterprise is 
available in preview for more than 160 million customers. It also confirmed 
that it is included in Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business 
Premium subscriptions at no extra cost. Read more 

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The company also revealed it plans to launch Bing Chat Enterprise as a 
standalone subscription for $5 per user per month at a later date, and hopes 
to make Bing Chat Enterprise available from Windows Copilot in the future, 
though details remain sparse. 

In a complementary blog post , Microsoft has confirmed that any data inputted 
into the chatbot will not be used to train its models. 

At the same time, Microsoft 365 Copilot is also rolling out to commercial 
customers in preview format ahead of general availability, when it will be 
priced at $30 per user per month. 

It promises all the capabilities of the regular Microsoft 365 Copilot, which 
has popped up in a number of apps like Excel and Word recently, but with 
additional security measures that see it inherit existing security, privacy, 
identity, and compliance policies. 

Away from the workplace, Microsoft is adding Visual Search to Bing Chat which 
uses the multimodal GPT-4 model to enable users to upload images instead of 
use text prompts, though the company has shied away from indicating when this 
may become available to enterprise customers. 

According to an in-house report, seven in 10 workers say that they would 
delegate as much work as possible to AI, but very few actually do because of 
concerns about the security of sensitive company information. Check out our 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-wants-more-businesses-to-be-able-to-us
e-bing-chat-and-copilot


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