Microsoft have recently invested over 19 billion dollars into open Ai and it's actually not the
first investment they've made with open AI back in 2019 Microsoft invested 1 billion into openai and
essentially got access to the language tech for own uses for its Azure Cloud customers now things
are coming to life with Microsoft and they're bringing it into their product and what they're
calling a third phase of the long-term partnership that they have with open AI now if you don't know
Microsoft 365 offers a range of different tools and of course a lot of the Technologies in there
are pretty Advanced already but combining with open AI can be really really interesting now
I would want to talk about few of the ways that I think this is going to play out and more talk
about what this looks like in a three-year window so first of all we can't ignore the
in the robe now that's not Evernote that is Google Google have a similar workspace experience to
Microsoft offering a cloud experience but also a combination of productivity software that they
can use at work as well as pretty robust email experience too now in some extents Google are
doing okay job they have a large audience but I definitely think that this is going to change
things Google is well known in the AI space at the moment to be rapidly underperforming when
it comes to be available AI powered technology and features and it's something that even you
can tell in their products and experience is still lacking but I can imagine Google have their own AI
system that they're planning and working on and probably aiming to release as humanly fast as
possible to all of their Enterprise and personal customers so in this sense Microsoft have made a
real roll of the dice but a very calculated role of the dice by bringing in this technology now
the way that I sort of see this is like a chassis and an engine I talked about this a few years ago
I always think of this sort of relationship as open AI is the engine behind this and Microsoft
and their 365 platform is essentially the chassis that goes over the top both work in tandem but the
power truly comes from the AI software obviously Microsoft have a lot of a bigger engine and this
is almost a bolt-on at the moment but this is a really interesting partnership when they're
trying to take on the likes of Google I think it's definitely going to progress
them very far forward now let's talk about the Microsoft teams premium Feature A lot of people
are typically getting this wrong at the moment posting that Microsoft teams have introduced the
open AI feature pretty fast but Microsoft teams essentially had the premium already in October
2022 with an AI system built themselves that would basically trans describe meeting notes
and extract tasks be able to collaborate with other applications so they already offered that
service but Microsoft essentially weaved this open AI system in order to cut costs and add
better production value obviously we all know that the open AI system is a lot more advanced
and really does bring together a lot of stuff so they're including this GPT 3.5 I believe it is
into the team's experience allowing you to do much more effective intelligent recap you can
actually find a video that we've done about how this actually operates it's pretty much the same
core experience just with a different engine or AI system here so they've interestingly already
introduced this experience which is fast and Rapid development so they've switched
out that and they've also introduced a way to build applications in Azure using Code apps as
well which is pretty far fast and pretty rapid in development now to be honest it's something
that Microsoft's just going to continue to evolve they're planning to Bing with faster chat GPT in
coming weeks and with gpt4 I'm sure that this will advance and further however I do think
Microsoft are sort of very early stages with this technology and I do have a few thoughts on where
I think it potentially could go so at the moment there's a service that Microsoft haven't actually
released yet and it's called Microsoft Loop if you want a full sort of overview of what Loop
does you can find it in our videos but I've been following Microsoft Loop well it was previously
called fluid framework for a few years now and I've quite liked how that technology works now I
do believe that Microsoft Loop will almost become the glue between the Technologies allowing you to
do say Outlook in teams or PowerPoint in word you know really taking the technology of being able to
do different stuff in different areas and be able to collaborate but now with the introduction and
investment in open AI I think that Microsoft Loop has the potential to even pivot towards something
even brighter and even more interesting now if you've got a technology that is can be weaved
across services and weaved to be built across services that can be much more exciting and
I almost think that Microsoft loot could be the zapier for Microsoft within their applications now
hear me out Microsoft Loop allows you to create different tools whilst being in another tool so
for example if you're in teams you will in the future be able to collaborate on an Excel document
and do that within that window now imagine if I was able to just type in create a Excel document
with everything I'm chatting about a loop could potentially be the glue to do that and allow
you to continue collaborating on that document so so that's my prediction obviously I'm being
very futuristic about this and and to be honest I think it's probably more in the three-year window
that something like this would be introduced but I have a feeling that could actually be a better
window to view the lens of Microsoft Loop in the system Microsoft Loop is almost like a glue an
adhesive between all of the different web and mobile services that they offer and being able
to optimize glue like that would be very cool like being able to use it with ease and be able
to create stuff and the only limitation being your creativity to producing the work it could be very
interesting and also it really lends itself to the decision making phase that we'll probably
go through with AI where is just essentially get the AI to do everything for you you still check
you still decision make about the quality of the result a Microsoft Loop could potentially be that
for all of these experiences and bringing them together this is a very far-fetched opinion but
I definitely think that's where Microsoft would be going but bringing it back down to the surface
this investment in open AI 19 billion dollars and the third phase of it which not many people know
is definitely something to look out for I think that the future of Microsoft is very bright with
this investment and I think that investing and really getting in there early will almost be
looked at like a cheap investment because of how Progressive this technology will go and being in
sort of bed per se or being in sort of the back pockets of open AI really gives them opportunity
to test these technologies that are potentially evolving and coming out and actually releasing
your Enterprise software with them before anybody else which is pretty awesome so Google's got to
do a lot of catching up Microsoft has some huge potential with this new investment and I'm really
interested in how this is going to play out in the coming months and the coming years so thank
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