Microsoft Copilot gets GPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E

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Nine months after the launch of its Bing Chat AI-powered chatbot, Microsoft has renamed it: it is now called Copilot. Microsoft announced this week new features in Copilot, intended to further optimize the performance of AI.

In a blog post, Microsoft revealed the new features that users can expect to see in 2024, and even some that you can take advantage of right now, which will extend the capabilities of the chatbot in several different aspects.

GPT-4 Turbo

The most notable improvement is that Copilot will soon be able to use the latest OpenAI model, GPT-4 Turbo, to generate answers. This feature is currently being tested with selected users and will be integrated on a large scale into Copilot over the next few weeks, Microsoft specifies.

Announced for the first time during OpenAI DevDay, GPT-4 Turbo pushes the limits of its chatbot in two ways: first by extending its knowledge until April 2023, then thanks to a 128 KB pop-up window, which allows it to fit more than 300 pages of text in a single prompt.

OpenAI has not yet equipped ChatGPT with GPT-4 Turbo, and Microsoft’s decision to include it in Copilot is therefore important, especially for those who could benefit from these advanced capabilities in their daily workflow.

DALL-E 3

Another important improvement of Copilot is that it will now have an updated version of DALL-E 3, making it possible to generate better and more accurate images. Users can start enjoying it right now by visiting bing.com/create or using Copilot.

To optimize multimodal messages on Copilot, Microsoft combines GPT-4 with Bing image search and web search data to better understand image queries, according to the company. This new feature will be available soon.

In addition, if you use Copilot for technical tasks – such as mathematics or coding – Microsoft has good news: the company is working on a new feature, a code interpreter, which will make it possible to use Copilot for complex tasks, including more precise calculations, code, data analysis… and many other things. This feature is still in the feedback collection phase, but Microsoft plans to make it available to as many people as possible shortly.

Writing help

Finally, those who use Microsoft’s Edge browser will soon be able to use Copilot to write content from most websites, thanks to the Compose function. Simply select the text you want to rewrite, and Copilot will take care of it for you.

Finally, the Bing search engine has a new in-depth search function, powered by GPT-4. The latter will make it possible to explore topics in more depth by proposing more complete and more reliable answers to users’ queries.

Source: ZDNet.com