Microsoft CoPilot Studio, Claude AI Agent, Perplexity Internal Search and Reasoning Capabilities
The AI agent race is on!
Here are several big AI announcements this week!
Microsoft 365 Copilot -Design intelligent, dynamic, and connected AI assistants (like the private GPTs in ChatGPT) for employees and customers with Copilot Studio. Here are the steps to create a Copilot for your company https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/fundamentals-get-started?tabs=web
I will be happy when they figure out the names for everything. Copilot on top of Copilot is confusing.
Perplexity- Rolled out Pro Search with reasoning capabilities like ChatGPT 01. The reasoning race is on. Pro Search is an advanced feature that goes beyond the free Quick Search option. It conducts thorough research to provide in-depth, accurate responses to your questions. See an example of it here: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/read-all-the-shareholder-lette-ACNERXw4T0iuxdENJjzsPQ
They also announced Internal Search capability for enterprise search. It will search the web and your workspace. https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-internal-knowledge-search-and-spaces As well as Perplexity Spaces, AI-powered collaboration hubs that can be deeply customized to your specific use case. Whether you’re part of a project team conducting research, a sales team creating customer proposals, or a student team working on study guides, Perplexity Spaces gives you a place to work together to get things done.
I totally geeked out when the CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, liked my tweets on these announcements. Ok, yes he probably has a bot doing it for him but it's still exciting in my little world.
Anthropic- Launched an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, introducing the “Computer Use” API, which allows it to interact with desktop apps like a human. Now in open beta, Claude can simulate keystrokes, clicks, and mouse movements by analyzing screenshots. Yes, another AI Agent release.
Canva- Launched several new features including Dream Lab, improved Magic Write, Custom Mockups and more: https://www.canva.com/droptober/
See I told you a big week in AI. I know it can feel overwhelming. Let me know if you have questions. Happy to geek out with you.
Greater Cincinnati AI Events for 2024 (over 70 events)
New events are added weekly. Here are the events that I am aware of: https://kendraramirez.com/cincinnati-ai-events-2024/
November 1 West Chester Liberty Chamber 8-9:30 am. I am speaking on AI. https://web.thechamberalliance.com/events/Women4%20Women%20-126/details
November 5 from 3-5 for our CincyAI meetup. Come see why we sell out every month with over 150 attendees. Half of the room is AI developers and half the room is the business community navigating AI. Thank you to UC Research and Digital Futures for your partnership. We have a surprise guest for November, a robot dog that UC developed. You will want to see it in person. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/920237163127?aff=oddtdtcreator
November 12 WITCON https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cincinnati-witcon-2024-collabherate-tickets-923364125957
November 12 Clermont Chamber luncheon. I will be talking about AI. https://clermontchamber.com/registrationcalendar/#id=2054&cid=243&wid=301&type=Cal
November 20 Ohio AI Summit in Columbus https://www.ohiox.org/events/ohio-ai-summit-2024
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