Microsoft has began sending out invitations to a fiftieth anniversary and Copilot occasion on the firm’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The April 4th occasion will happen on the day Microsoft marks 50 years because it was first based by Invoice Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.
The occasion on Microsoft’s campus will embody an employee-only celebration of the corporate’s 50 years, alongside particulars on what’s subsequent for the buyer facet of Microsoft’s Copilot AI companion. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and different “leaders of previous and current” might be a part of the Copilot and fiftieth anniversary occasion.
The Copilot occasion will happen amid rumors that Microsoft is creating its personal in-house AI reasoning fashions to compete with OpenAI. The Info reported final week that Suleyman has been main the cost on creating Microsoft’s personal AI fashions, dubbed MAI. These fashions may probably compete with OpenAI and even substitute OpenAI’s fashions in Copilot.
It’s attainable that Microsoft is likely to be able to demo a few of its personal AI mannequin work at this Copilot occasion subsequent month, the place the corporate will undoubtedly be seeking to place AI on the heart of its plan for its subsequent 50 years.
