Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 AI models to its Microsoft 365 Copilot today. It’s a ...

Microsoft adds Claude to Copilot, but cross-cloud AI could raise new governance challenges

While Claude boosts reasoning and resilience, its AWS-hosted architecture could introduce latency, egress costs, and data ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online public preview and ML.NET 1.4

At Ignite 2019 today, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online public preview. Visual Studio Online meshes Visual Studio, cloud-hosted developer environments, and a web-based editor. AI, big data, and ...
Business Wire

High Alpha Launches New Startup to Help Leading Organizations Innovate Through the Venture Studio Model

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High Alpha, a leading venture studio, today announced the launch of High Alpha Innovation, a new company that helps leading organizations innovate through the ...
GeekWire

Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $20M for third fund, bets big on generative AI

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on May 18, 2023 at 7:00 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New Open Source ONNX Runtime Web Does Machine Learning Modeling in Browser

Microsoft introduced a new feature for the open source ONNX Runtime machine learning model accelerator for running JavaScript-based ML models running in browsers. Microsoft says ONNX Runtime inference ...