Users of Copilot will now be able to create images of a higher quality and more accurate to the prompt using the Dall-E 3 model released by OpenAI this year.
Microsoft has announced plans to infuse Copilot, its AI chatbot for everyday use, with the latest OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo model as well as the Dall-E 3 image generator.
This, Microsoft hopes, will vastly better performance of Copilot, which recently brought all the company’s AI features under one umbrella brand, and make advancements in the fast-growing technology accessible to more people.
OpenAI released GPT-4 Turbo last month as an improved version of the popular GPT-4 model. It has a context window four times larger than its predecessor and knowledge data updated until April of this year, unlike GPT-4 which is updated to September 2021.
“Soon, Copilot will be able to create responses using OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4 Turbo, enabling you to tackle more complex and longer tasks,” said Yusuf Medhi, chief marketing officer at Microsoft.
“This model is currently being tested with select users and will be widely integrated into Copilot in the coming weeks.”
Medhi said that users of Copilot can now also use the AI chatbot to create images that are of a higher quality and more accurate to the prompt with an updated Dall-E 3 model.
OpenAI unveiled Dall-E 3 in September, claiming the model is able to grasp “significantly more nuance and detail” than its previous systems. The image generator was made available to all Bing Chat users in October as part of Microsoft’s ongoing partnership with OpenAI.
In a blogpost, OpenAI claimed Dall-E 3 generates images that are more “visually striking” and have better detail. The company also claimed this model can reliably furnish details such as hands and faces – features that many of these models appear to struggle with.
Other features on their way to Copilot include a Code Interpreter to help users perform complex tasks such as more accurate calculations, coding, data analysis, visualisation and maths, and Deep seek, which uses GPT-4 to optimise seek results for complex topics.
Microsoft has been playing a leading role globally in brining AI to the masses. Last week, the tech giant said it will invest £2.5bn in the UK over the next three years, its largest-ever investment in the country, to enlarge its AI data centre and research footprint.
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