multimodal ai

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: an experimental feature called Copilot Portraits places stylized, animated human‑like avatars into live voice sessions so the assistant not only speaks but also appears to speak, moving its mouth, blinking, nodding and showing micro‑expressions in real time...

Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...

TechBullion’s recent roundup highlights ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and GrammarlyGO as among the top AI tools making learning easier for students — a concise list that captures the current mainstream players while missing several specialist tools educators are already using in...

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision is already one of those features that sounds like science fiction until you actually point a camera at a menu, or ask an AI to “read” two app windows at once and find the dates when you’re free for a baseball game — then it suddenly feels like tomorrow’s productivity...

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision promises a simple idea with big implications: let your AI assistant “see” what you see and turn that visual context into immediate, voice-driven help — from identifying a hat in your hands to cross‑checking calendars on your desktop — and the real-world results are...

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision packs the promise of a truly multimodal assistant: point a camera or share a window, and the AI reads, summarizes, translates, highlights UI elements, and even talks back — a combination of visual comprehension and conversational voice that changes what “help” on a PC...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 (delivered as ChatGPT‑5) and Google’s Gemini 2.5 now define the mainstream frontier of consumer and enterprise AI: both are multimodal, tool‑enabled systems that trade raw scale for pragmatic features — and each company has taken a different product route to reach the same...

Google’s Gemini is positioning itself as more than a chatbot — it’s being packaged, integrated, and promoted as a daily workhorse that can replace single-purpose assistants and win user loyalty through consistent utility rather than flash. Recent coverage and first‑hand user testimonials point...

xAI’s new Grok 4 Fast lands as a direct bet on cost‑efficient reasoning: a unified, multimodal model with a staggering 2,000,000‑token context window, split SKUs for reasoning and non‑reasoning use, native web and X search, multihop browsing, and a pricing structure designed to make long‑context...

Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into the Xbox experience on Windows 11, inserting a voice‑enabled, screenshot‑aware helper into the Game Bar that promises context-sensitive guidance, achievement lookups, and personalized game...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...

Kathleen Mitford told a packed IBC audience that the media industry’s survival depends on treating AI not as an optional experiment but as a core capability — a “frontier” set of tools that, when combined with human creativity, can reshape how stories are produced, distributed and monetised...

The conversation around artificial intelligence and work has moved from abstract speculation to hard-edged debate — and a recent poll-driven piece on Windows Central captures that anxiety in stark terms while pointing to concrete research showing which roles are already feeling pressure...

Google’s new experimental desktop app for Windows drops a compact, Spotlight‑style search overlay onto the PC and promises to unite local files, installed apps, Google Drive documents, and the web — all reachable with a quick Alt + Space keystroke — while folding in Google Lens and an optional...

Google is quietly bringing its signature search experience to the Windows desktop with an experimental app that unifies results from your PC, Google Drive, installed applications and the web — all summoned with a simple Alt + Space shortcut. Background Google has long treated search as a...

Google has quietly dropped an experimental, Spotlight‑style search app for Windows that aims to make web, cloud and local file search a single keystroke away — summoned by Alt + Space by default — and bundled with integrated Google Lens and an optional AI Mode powered by Google’s generative...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Google has quietly begun testing a new desktop search experience for Windows that looks and feels like macOS Spotlight but with Google’s distinctive multimodal and generative-AI capabilities layered on top, bringing web search, Google Drive, local files, installed apps, and Google Lens into a...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...