The Future of AI Technology: A Look at Microsoft and Google's Latest Updates
What happens when 2 AI giants upgrade their service the same day? This turns into one of the most exciting days of the year.
While Google hits back with a full integration of AI across Google Workspace, Microsoft wants to be your copilot within Microsoft 365.
And that's great news for users on both sides!
Google strikes back!
Last week, Google unveiled new AI functionalities in Gmail, Docs, and other applications, in an effort to compete with Microsoft.
What’s new?
Here are a few of the many things you will be able to do with their new AI:
Organize and prioritize your Gmail inbox by creating drafts, replying to messages, and summarizing important information
Utilize Google Docs to brainstorm, proofread, write, and revise your documents
Use Slides to bring your ideas to life with the help of auto-generated images, audio, and video features
With the help of Sheets, turn easily raw data into valuable insights and analysis using auto-completion, formula generation, and contextual categorization
In Google Meet, capture notes and customize your background with auto-generated options
Chat enables workflows to help you get things done efficiently
Welcome Microsoft 365 – your copilot for work
The same day, Microsoft introduced a new LLM-based AI copilot for the Microsoft Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth; with our new copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface — natural language.
- Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
What’s new?
Again, another bunch of practical things to help you achieve your goals:
Word - write, edit, summarize, and create right alongside you
With only a brief prompt, get a first draft, bringing in information from across your organization as needed
Add content to existing documents
Summarize text
Rewrite sections or the entire document to make it more concise
Excel - analyze and explore your data
Ask Copilot questions about your data set in natural language, not just formulas
It will reveal correlations, propose what-if scenarios, and suggest new formulas based on your questions – generating models based on the questions that help you explore your data without modifying it
Identify trends
Create powerful visualizations
Ask for recommendations to drive different outcomes
Outlook - spend less time on email triage and more time on communicating better, faster, and more easily
Summarize lengthy, convoluted email threads with multiple people to understand not only what has been said, but the different viewpoints of each person and the open questions that have yet to be answered
Respond to an existing email with a simple prompt or turn quick notes into crisp, professional messages—pulling from other emails or content that you already have access to from across Microsoft 365
PowerPoint: turn your ideas into stunning presentations
Transform existing written documents into decks complete with speaker notes and sources or start a new presentation from a simple prompt
Condense lengthy presentations at the click of a button
Use natural language commands to adjust layouts, reformat text, and perfectly time animations
Run effective Teams meetings
Get up to speed on the conversation
Organize key discussion points
Summarize actions
Create meeting agendas based on chat history and identify the right people for follow-ups
Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before.
You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads.
You probably noticed the promise of something natural and easy to use that should remind you of something else, like the launch of iPhone a decade ago...
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