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Microsoft has announced a new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company, which plans to spend a total of $1.1 billion during that time to access Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services.

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service has launched a public preview of a new feature that offers businesses real-time detection and mitigation of abusive generative AI requests from end users.

Microsoft has announced that its On Your Data feature for its Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available. It lets businesses use LLMs on their data with enterprise-grade security.

Microsoft has announced the launch of a private preview of Azure AI Health Bot Copilot, which will allow healthcare companies to create Copilots of their own to help streamline services.

TomTom has announced a new collaboration with Microsoft that will add generative AI features into car information systems, including a voice-based assistant, using Azure OpenAI Service.

Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI Service has added support for the GPT-4 Turbo with Vision AI model via a public preview, combining the use of text prompts with image analysis.

Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI Service has added support for OpenAI's new GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo generative AI models that were first revealed earlier this month.

Microsoft has announced that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is coming to Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Studio. It has also renamed the Copilot Copyright Commitment for Azure OpenAI Service customers.

Inworld AI has announced a new partnership with Microsoft's Xbox division to create generative AI tools for character and narrative portions of game development. Financial terms were not disclosed

Microsoft and Siemens have launched Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI assistant jointly developed to improve productivity in manufacturing. It can rapidly generate and debug complex automation code.

Microsoft has announced that it will be introducing four new AI text-to-speech voices optimised for conversations which can be used for chatbots, voice assistants or conversational agents.

The new Typeface Ai app will allow enterprise users of Microsoft Teams to collaborate on creating content with the assistance of generative AI via Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service,

Microsoft and Epic are expanding their partnership to bring generative AI to healthcare, addressing clinician burnout and productivity issues. Over 50 Azure-powered AI solutions will be deployed.

Aptos Labs will integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service with its network. Microsoft's AI models will be trained on the Aptos blockchain, while Aptos will run validator nodes on Microsoft Azure.

The new Microsoft Azure ND H100 v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series will offer fast generative AI workloads for business, while the Azure OpenAI Service is now available in more parts of the world.

The new partnership will give KPMG access to Microsoft's generative AI and cloud services so its employees can "provide faster analysis and spend more time on strategic advice" for their clients.

At the Microsoft Build 2023 event today, Microsoft has unveiled its new unified analytics platform dubbed "Microsoft Fabric". As expected, Fabric will be a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

Microsoft and Builder.ai have formed a strategic partnership that will see their services more tightly integrated. Builder.ai also disclosed that it has received an equity investment from Microsoft.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is filled to the brim with news about updates to Microsoft 365 apps and services like Teams and Edge, new features and bugs in Windows, and Copilot upgrades.

The addition of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service will allow businesses and enterprise customers to create their own large language AI applications with the help of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

Join us in the latest edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap important news updates from the Microsoft-verse including a new Canary Channel, AI shenanigans, and updates to Microsoft services.