MICROSOFT IS ABOUT TO UPGRADE Copilot’s AI engine to GPT-4 Turbo, which is the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT engine. It’s been trained on data up to April 2023, while its predecessor reached January 2022. It also has a quadrupled query size. GPT-4 had a 32K token query, Turbo has 128K. A token is roughly 250 to 400 words. This means you’ll be able to dump about 300 pages of the average book into CoPilot and ask for a summary. It also has a code interpreter feature for programmers which will write and execute code in a sandbox. It can also summarize YouTube videos and rewrite text without changing the content. We also get Deep Search, which goes deeper into the web for more accurate results, although these take up to 30 seconds. There is also a new version of the Dall-E 3 image generator coming, too. Microsoft put $10 billion into OpenAI, giving it a 49 percent stake, and recently got itself a non-voting seat on the board after a rather public spat between board members. OpenAI is the commercial offshoot of an organization governed by a non-profit board, which is an odd arrangement. We expect that there’s more pushing and shoving over the control of OpenAI to come.
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