Releases

Microsoft begins rolling out Copilot in Windows as part of a Windows 11 feature update.

Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Copilot experience across Windows, web, Edge and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-1.5, a compact language model trained primarily on synthetic textbook-quality data.

Microsoft, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI establish the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier-AI safety research, standards and responsible development.

Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise with commercial data protection and announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing.

Microsoft Research introduces Phi-1, showing that curated textbook-quality data can produce strong code and reasoning performance in a compact model.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-2, linking generated language to object regions in images through grounding.

Microsoft Research introduces Orca, a 13-billion-parameter model trained from rich explanation traces produced by larger models.

Microsoft announces a common plugin model spanning ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft introduces Security Copilot, a generative-AI assistant for security investigation, threat intelligence and response.

GitHub introduces Copilot X, including conversational Copilot Chat experiences across editors, pull requests and command-line workflows.

Microsoft launches Bing Image Creator, integrating generative image creation into Bing chat and the Edge sidebar.

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot and Business Chat, combining large language models with Microsoft Graph and productivity applications.

Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot across sales, service, marketing, supply chain and business workflows.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-1, a multimodal large language model capable of perceiving visual inputs and following language instructions.

Microsoft releases Semantic Kernel to help developers integrate language models, plugins, memory and planning into applications.

Microsoft launches a new AI-powered Bing and Edge with conversational search, synthesized answers and content generation.

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service generally available with enterprise access to OpenAI models through Azure.

Microsoft announces Designer, an AI-powered graphic-design application using generative image technology.

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers as a subscription product.

Microsoft releases the Responsible AI Dashboard, combining fairness, interpretability, error analysis and causal tools in one interface.

Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nuance, adding clinical speech recognition, ambient intelligence and conversational AI to its portfolio.

Microsoft releases DeBERTa V3 with replaced-token detection and gradient-disentangled embedding sharing.