Microsoft's AI revamp

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s hot take on this week’s scaling debate: There’s still plenty of room to keep climbing. He brought receipts, too, with a new tool that might make language barriers a thing of the past, plus a host of AI updates that could change the way you work.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Faster robots, quantum breakthroughs, and talent battles

• Tutorial: How to make sense of unstructured data with AI

• The biggest announcements from Microsoft Ignite

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Choose your own tiny home

TODAY IN AI

1. Figure’s humanoid robots just got 400% faster: If you stop by BMW’s South Carolina plant, you’ll be greeted by an unexpected sight — a fleet of autonomous robots moving parts on the production line. Figure CEO Brett Adcock said his startup’s three-month experiment has been a success, with a 7x boost in accuracy and a 4x speed jump. Next on the agenda: Delivering millions of them to households and workplaces.

2. Quantum computers could hit the market next year: Microsoft and computing company Atom just broke a new record by using lasers to hold 24 qubits in place at the same time. The breakthrough means quantum computers — which use the principles of quantum physics, like the idea that a piece of information can mean 0 and 1 at the same time — could arrive as soon as 2025, dramatically speeding up AI developments.

3. The battle for top AI talent gets more crowded: Silicon Valley is already cutthroat enough, but now, Chinese tech companies like ByteDance are heading there to look for top developers. For its part, Alibaba reportedly hired several OpenAI alums for a new Bay Area office. Chinese companies have felt pressure to venture abroad as the US clamps down on chip exports, making it harder to build AI products inside the country.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to extract structured data from unstructured data with AI

Extracting structured data from unstructured documents saves time and reduces errors. Here's how:

• Go to Extracta AI, sign up, and open the "Data Extraction" tab.

• Click "+ New extraction" and choose a template (e.g., "Resume/CV") or select "Custom Document" for unique formats.

• Name your extraction, set the language, select document options, and click "Next" to proceed.

• Edit fields to match your document’s structure. You can add new fields or remove irrelevant ones.

• Adjust field types (e.g., String, List<String>) and click "Next" to save.

• Upload files, confirm, and wait for processing to finish.

• Review extracted data and download it as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

FROM THE FRONTIER

How Microsoft plans to streamline your work with AI

The idea of having an AI personal assistant to do things for you sounds good — but when it comes to actually building one, a lot of us have no idea where to start. At its annual Ignite event, Microsoft announced new agents that can automatically jump into your workflow without much setup. 

They can take notes during meetings, analyze your documents, and summarize chats. But the coolest one might be an AI interpreter that automatically translates your speech into different languages while preserving your unique voice during video calls. 

Eric Boyd, Corporate VP, Azure AI Platform told Superhuman the updates are all about practicality: “Our ultimate aim is to help organizations connect advanced AI technologies with their real-world business needs and existing infrastructure.”

Here’s everything else announced: 

• An Azure update lets developers switch between LLMs so they don’t have to rebuild their apps each time a new model comes out

• Two new chips: One for speeding up computing inside data centers and one for security and encryption

• An AI-powered search feature for Copilot PCs lets you find things like “the photo of a red barn”

• A mini PC called Windows 365 Link runs entirely on the cloud

• A new and improved Recall feature (the one that can remember what you did online days or weeks ago) with beefed-up security

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🐘 Total Recall: Gemini will now be able to remember important details about subscribers’ past conversations, including dates, preferences, formats, and tones.

👀 Seeing is Believing: OpenAI Plus users can now access Advanced Voice mode on web browsers, not just the mobile app. There are hints that a live video feature, which can see and understand everything on your camera, could be entering beta soon, too.

🛒 Retail Revolution: Alphabet is updating its Lens app to enhance in-store shopping, offering product insights, price comparisons, and real-time local inventory availability.

🔒 Rights Reserved: HarperCollins says it’ll get permission from authors before lending out their titles to tech companies for model training, setting new standards for copyright in the age of AI.

🤝 Clever Collabs: A leaked internal document reveals that Amazon is partnering with companies like Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart for its upcoming AI-powered Alexa.

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