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Microsoft has released Phi-Ground-Any, a 4B parameter vision model for GUI grounding on Hugging Face that achieves state-of-the-art results, enabling AI agents to precisely interact with screen elements.
Newly revealed 2017-2018 emails from Microsoft executives show early reservations about investing in OpenAI, introduced as evidence in the Musk v. Altman federal trial. The emails reveal internal skepticism about OpenAI's near-term AGI prospects and financial concerns, despite Microsoft eventually making its landmark $1 billion investment.
Microsoft Foundry's Toolbox feature enables durable long-running agents with a single MCP endpoint, reportedly reducing input tokens by 90% and simplifying agent code at cloud scale.
The author announces the launch of a long-form history of Visual Basic, with Chapter 1 covering the origins of BASIC and the development of VB 1.0.
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced an amended partnership agreement that simplifies their collaboration, removes revenue sharing from Microsoft to OpenAI, and makes Microsoft's license to OpenAI IP non-exclusive through 2032.
Microsoft introduces Hosted agents in Foundry, giving each AI agent a dedicated enterprise-grade sandbox with durable state, identity, governance, and framework support.
Microsoft launches Foundry Agents preview, a cloud platform optimized for building, running and deploying AI agents with any model or framework.
Microsoft claims to have solved the context window problem in AI, addressing the limitation where models must retain every token in their chain-of-thought during complex reasoning tasks.
OpenAI and Microsoft issue a joint statement clarifying that their partnership remains unchanged following OpenAI's new funding announcements and partnerships with other companies like Amazon. The statement reaffirms Microsoft's exclusive cloud provider status for stateless APIs, IP licensing rights, and revenue-sharing arrangements.
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a new definitive agreement restructuring their partnership, with Microsoft increasing its investment to $135 billion (27% stake) and extending IP rights through 2032. The deal introduces AGI verification procedures, allows both companies greater independence in pursuing AGI and product development, and includes a $250B Azure services commitment from OpenAI.
OpenAI and Microsoft have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, with both companies actively working to finalize contractual terms while emphasizing their shared commitment to AI safety.
VibeVoice is a new model from Microsoft that synthesizes long-form multi-speaker speech using next-token diffusion and a highly efficient continuous speech tokenizer. It achieves superior fidelity and compression, supporting up to 90 minutes of audio with multiple speakers.
OpenAI and Microsoft have launched the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program to help local newsrooms adopt AI for business sustainability and innovation, with initial grants supporting five news organizations including the Chicago Sun-Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, and Philadelphia Inquirer.
OpenAI and Microsoft disrupted five state-affiliated threat actors (from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia) who were misusing AI services for phishing campaigns, code analysis, and information gathering. The actors were identified and their accounts terminated, with findings showing limited incremental capabilities of GPT-4 for malicious cybersecurity tasks beyond existing tools.
OpenAI and Microsoft extend their multi-year, multi-billion dollar partnership, with Microsoft increasing investment in Azure supercomputing systems that will remain the exclusive cloud provider for all OpenAI workloads across research, API, and products.
OpenAI has licensed GPT-3 technology to Microsoft as part of their multiyear partnership, allowing Microsoft to incorporate the model into its own products and services while maintaining OpenAI's continued API access for developers.
Microsoft has invested in and partnered with OpenAI to support the development of beneficial AGI, with Microsoft becoming OpenAI's preferred partner for commercializing pre-AGI technologies. The partnership aims to fund the massive computational resources required while keeping OpenAI focused on its core research mission.
OpenAI and Microsoft announced a partnership to run OpenAI's large-scale experiments on Azure, making it the primary cloud platform for OpenAI's deep learning and AI research. The collaboration will leverage Azure's GPU infrastructure to accelerate AI research and share results with the broader community.