Microsoft Copilot has been silently upgraded to a extra superior synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin, revealed an organization govt on Tuesday. With the improve, Copilot, the AI-powered chatbot, is now powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo mannequin. Each the free tier and the Professional model can now entry the newest mannequin, nonetheless, solely Copilot Professional customers may have the choice to revert to older GPT-4 mannequin. Notably, the tech big additionally not too long ago revealed the launch date for its Copilot for Safety platform, confirming that it’s going to grow to be out there globally beginning April 1.
Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Promoting and Net Providers at Microsoft, shared a post on X (previously often called Twitter) on March 12, and mentioned, “After fairly some work, GPT4-Turbo changed GPT-4 within the Copilot free tier. Professional customers can nonetheless select the older mannequin, if want (there’s a toggle).” The announcement comes with none fanfare, nonetheless, it’s a important improve that may influence common customers. Notably, Copilot Professional customers may already entry GPT-4 Turbo.
For starters, the information cut-off of GPT-4-based Copilot was September 2021 however GPT-4 Turbo has a information base as much as April 2023. This is not going to be noticeable when trying to find on-line matters because the AI chatbot is linked to the web, nonetheless, for matters which can’t be readily discovered on the web, the elevated information output is predicted to lead to extra up to date responses. Aside from the Balanced mode, the up to date AI mannequin’s help has additionally been added to the Artistic and Exact modes.
GPT-4 Turbo was launched by OpenAI in November 2023. It comes with an elevated context window of 128,000 tokens, versus GPT-4’s 8,000 tokens. The AI agency mentioned that it will probably match the equal of greater than 300 pages of textual content in a single immediate. Which means the newest AI mannequin can look via a bigger set of knowledge to search out contextual details about a immediate. Curiously, the free tier of OpenAI’s native chatbot ChatGPT remains to be operating on GPT 3.5 AI mannequin.
In the meantime, Microsoft has additionally revealed the launch date for its Copilot for Safety platform which shall be out there to enterprise clients beginning April 1. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Microsoft’s safety fashions, it comes with multilingual capabilities, providing help for 25 totally different languages.
