multimodal ai

Microsoft has quietly broadened the multimodal toolkit available through Azure AI Foundry by adding three cost‑optimized OpenAI "mini" models — GPT-image-1‑mini, GPT-realtime‑mini, and GPT-audio‑mini — alongside updated GPT‑5 offerings that emphasize enhanced safety (GPT-5‑chat‑latest) and a...

Microsoft’s Copilot has grown teeth: a wave of recent updates adds Voice, Vision, advanced reasoning modes and deeper app integrations that promise real time productivity gains — and an equal number of eyebrow-raising privacy, accuracy, and cost questions. Background Microsoft has pushed Copilot...

Elon Musk’s public push to have xAI build “a great AI‑generated game before the end of next year” and an at‑least‑“watchable” movie is both an audacious product promise and a clear signal of the company’s broader ambition to move from chatbots into agentic, multimodal creative systems that can...

Artificial intelligence on the iPhone has moved from novelty to necessity: the newest generation of mobile AI apps now blends real-time multimodal assistance, on-device privacy options, and deep ecosystem integrations that change how people write, create, search, and work on the go. The roundup...

Google has taken its most advanced Gemini models and wrapped them into a single, subscription-priced platform for businesses — Gemini Enterprise — a productized workplace AI stack that bundles pre-built and custom agents, a no-code/low-code agent workbench, broad connectors to third-party...

In 2025 the trajectory of artificial intelligence moved from promise to palpable transformation: models that blend text, images, audio and video are now standard tools in boardrooms and laboratories, enterprise platforms ship with integrated agent builders, and self-driving laboratories run...

Google has launched Gemini Enterprise, a packaged AI platform that attempts to turn the company’s most powerful Gemini models, agent tooling, and Workspace integrations into a single subscription aimed at everyday knowledge workers—and in doing so has pushed the enterprise AI battle straight...

Google Cloud unveiled Gemini Enterprise on October 9, 2025, positioning it as a single, subscription-priced hub that brings Google’s most advanced Gemini models, pre-built and custom AI agents, and broad third-party connectors into the workplace—an explicit challenge to Microsoft’s Copilot...

Google has pushed its Gemini AI suite further into the enterprise ring with the formal launch of Gemini Enterprise, a packaged product meant to compete directly with Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise in the high-stakes world of corporate AI. The move bundles Google’s most...

Azure AI Foundry’s latest rollout moves multimodal AI from experimental novelty toward a practical developer platform: OpenAI’s new mini models (GPT-image-1‑mini, GPT‑realtime‑mini, GPT‑audio‑mini) are being added to Foundry alongside upgraded GPT‑5 safety features and Microsoft’s new Agent...

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...