multimodal ai

Infosys’ new AI assistant for energy operations signals a pragmatic push to bring “agentic” AI into safety-critical industrial workflows by combining Infosys Topaz and Cobalt with Microsoft’s Copilot tooling, Azure AI Foundry model hosting (including GPT‑4o family models) and OpenAI capabilities...

The free-AI chatbot era that began in 2022 has matured into a full-blown ecosystem battle in 2025 — a practical, messy, and often brilliant landscape where ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, and Meta AI each stake a claim to being the “best” assistant...

Microsoft’s Copilot platform just received a sweeping Fall update that stitches generative AI into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365 more tightly than ever — introducing twelve headline features (including a new expressive assistant called Mico), deeper enterprise-facing connectors and memory...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first Microsoft partners to deploy Azure agentic AI for enterprises marks a clear milestone in the shift from experimental pilots to productized, low‑latency conversational agents that can be deployed at scale—and it asks enterprise IT teams to make...

Microsoft has quietly expanded Copilot’s Vision capability on Windows so that Insiders can now type queries about what the assistant sees — and receive text replies in the same chat pane — turning a previously voice‑centric experience into a fully multimodal, text‑in/text‑out interaction that...

Microsoft’s first public preview of the Copilot‑powered taskbar search box delivers a clean, polished experience that blurs the line between classic Windows Search and an AI assistant — but early testing shows the tradeoffs are real: convenience and discovery come at the cost of fragmented...

The field of conversational AI has moved from a single-name conversation to a crowded, capability-driven marketplace where multimodality, ecosystem integration, data governance, and cost are the clearest differentiators — and a new generation of chatbots is actively competing with ChatGPT for...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly been given a face — and Microsoft is already testing ways those animated Portraits could move beyond a narrow interview-coaching experiment into a broader set of practical and playful scenarios that span career prep, study help, public-speaking practice, language...

The AI landscape of 2025 is no longer an experiment — it’s a working set of tools that billions of people use daily to write, design, search, code, chat and create media — and a handful of platforms now dominate that activity while reshaping risk, policy and enterprise practice. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly started to push a major change to the Windows 11 taskbar: an opt‑in “Ask Copilot” search pill that blends the long‑standing Windows Search index with Copilot’s conversational, voice, and vision capabilities, arriving first to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels...

The era when AI assistants lived in the cloud and answered our questions from distant data centers is rapidly giving way to an architecture that puts meaningful intelligence on the device itself — smaller models, specialized chips, and new privacy trade-offs are turning assistants from web tools...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot Vision on Windows from a voice‑first curiosity into a practical, multimodal assistant: Insiders can now type about what Copilot sees and get text replies in the same chat pane, with the ability to flip to voice mid‑conversation — a staged Copilot app update...

Microsoft has quietly given Copilot on Windows a practical new ability: Vision can now accept typed inputs and return typed outputs, letting you share one or more app windows or a desktop region and type questions about what Copilot sees, with replies appearing in the same Copilot chat pane...

Microsoft has quietly upgraded Copilot on Windows with a major usability shift: Vision now supports text-in, text-out, turning what began as a voice-first screen‑sharing experiment into a truly multimodal assistant that can see your apps and answer typed questions directly in the Copilot chat...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged Insider preview that finally gives Copilot Vision a full text-in / text-out conversation path so Windows Insiders can type about what Copilot sees and receive text replies in the same chat pane. Background Copilot on Windows has been evolving from a...

Microsoft has begun rolling a modest but consequential update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings a text-in / text-out path to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders — meaning you can now share an app or screen with Copilot and type questions about what it sees, with Copilot answering in the...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot Vision on Windows to support a typed input mode, letting you share app windows or your desktop with Copilot and type questions about what it sees — a capability now rolling out to Windows Insiders as a staged preview that broadens where and how Vision can...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot “Fall Release” stitches a dozen headline features into a single strategic pivot: transform Copilot from a reactive chat box into a persistent, context‑aware, and human‑centred companion across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft’s mobile surfaces. Background Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a personality: a colorful, blob‑shaped avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s Voice Mode and is rolling out to Windows 11 devices — including a growing list of Samsung Galaxy Book models — as part of Microsoft’s Fall Copilot updates that add voice, vision...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico that arrived as the headline feature of Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release and is already changing how voice and tutoring interactions feel on Windows, Edge and mobile devices. Background / Overview...