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Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected

As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model trained mainly on synthetic data

Microsoft Corp. has developed a small language model that can solve certain math problems better than algorithms several times its size. The company revealed the model, Phi-4, on Thursday. The ...
Newsweek

What Data Does Microsoft Actually Use To Train Its AI?

Rumors online have suggested for months that Microsoft could be using your Word data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). Microsoft, however, says it doesn't use ...
Geeky Gadgets

Microsoft’s Phi-4 (14B) AI Model Tested Locally: Performance, Limitations and Future Potential

Microsoft’s new Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter language model, represents a significant development in artificial intelligence, particularly in tackling complex reasoning tasks. Designed for ...

Copilot uses your Microsoft activity data to personalize its responses

Microsoft has confirmed that Copilot can use data from other Microsoft services—such as Edge, Bing, and MSN—to customizn its ...

Microsoft adds xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast to Copilot Studio in expanded model push

Microsoft is broadening its AI toolkit. Starting today, xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast joins the model provider lineup inside Copilot Studio, giving organisations more flexibility when building AI agents. The ...
eWeek

Microsoft Debuts Rho-alpha Robotics Model for Next Phase of ‘Physical AI’

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft releases new Phi models optimized for multimodal processing, efficiency

Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency. The first addition is the text-only ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft now hosts AI model accused of copying OpenAI data

Fresh on the heels of a controversy in which ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused the Chinese company behind DeepSeek R1 of using its AI model outputs against its terms of ...
InfoWorld

Inside Phi 2: Microsoft’s small language model

2023 was very much the year of the large language model. OpenAI’s GPT models, Meta’s Llama, Google’s PaLM, and Anthropic’s Claude 2 are all large language models, or LLMs, with many billions of ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says it's not using your Word, Excel data for AI training

Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models. "Microsoft does not use ...