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28-02-2025
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Microsoft Copilot gets a macOS app
Microsoft finally released a macOS app for Copilot, its free generative AI chatbot. Similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, Copilot enables users to ask questions and receive responses generated by AI. Copilot is designed to assist users in numerous tasks, such as drafting emails, summarizing documents, writing cover letters, and more. There's also an image generator driven by DALL-E 3. When Microsoft first launched Copilot two years ago, it was only available on Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari web browsers. It didn't roll out on Android, iOS, and iPadOS devices until early 2024. The AI assistant is also integrated into Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft apps. However, this new Copilot app gives Mac users a dedicated experience. One important point about the macOS app is that it requires macOS 14.0 or later, as well as a Mac model with an Apple M1 chip or later. Similarly, Apple Intelligence, Apple's AI system, requires macOS 15.1 and a Mac model with an M1 chip or later. In other recent news, Microsoft announced earlier this week that all Copilot users now have free, unlimited access to 'Voice' and 'Think Deeper' features. Copilot's Voice capability can help users practice a new language, while Think Deeper is powered by OpenAI's o1 model and can tackle more complex tasks. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Yahoo
Microsoft launches native Mac app for Copilot
Microsoft is making its Copilot AI assistant available as a Mac app. The native macOS app will offer access to the web-based version of the Microsoft tool. It's rolling out today in the US, the UK and Canada. In practice, the apps functionalities sound pretty much identical to the experience of going to the web version of Copilot. The real distinction is that the Mac app includes a keyboard shortcut for activating the AI assistant with Command + Space and it can be viewed in dark mode. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would make the Copilot features Voice and Think Deeper, which taps into OpenAI's o1 model, available to any users for free. Both moves seems aimed at broadening the company's audience for Copilot. Big tech companies have a rocky history of trying to make their software available on rival hardware. Sometimes, it can take years for a service to be optimized for a different brand's exact specs. The arrival of a dedicated macOS app for Copilot, which is already out as an iPhone and iPad app, might be about as quick as Microsoft has ever brought a service to the Apple ecosystem.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
OpenAI Rolls Out Deep Research Access to More ChatGPT Users
OpenAI is opening up its Deep Research tool to all paying ChatGPT users. In a series of tweets this week, the company said Plus, Team, Enterprise and Edu users will now have access to 10 Deep Research queries each month. Previously, only Pro users – who pay $200 a month – were able to access the tool. Meanwhile, Pro users will see their monthly Deep Research queries increase to 120, up from 100. OpenAI told CNET it also made improvements to the tool, including embedding images with citations for deeper insight and the ability to better understand files to help with document analysis. The move comes as OpenAI expands its suite of tools and moves toward its broader goal of developing AI that can match or surpass human capabilities in areas requiring deep analysis and decision-making. The company also announced this week that it is rolling out a free version of Advanced Voice Mode, a tool that enables real-time voice interactions with ChatGPT. The iteration will be powered by its GPT-4o Mini model, whereas ChatGPT Plus users use Advanced Voice Mode powered through 4o with advanced capabilities access to video and screensharing. Microsoft, meanwhile, said this week that it is giving users of its Copilot AI unlimited free access to its Voice and Think Deeper resources on its free tier. Voice enables verbal commands, and Think Deeper is meant for more complex questions through more advanced reasoning powered by OpenAI's o1 model. Paul Schell, an analyst at ABI Research, noted the latest Deep Research news from OpenAI follows a pattern seen with previous iterations of ChatGPT in which the company makes gradual improvements and provides more access to less expensive tiers over time. "There is a democratization of AI occurring, and the real question is whether such high-performance (agentic AI) models will be refined to a level that can be implemented in workplaces, and the impact that this will have on a range of professions," he said. Announced in early February, Deep Research is an AI agent that uses reasoning-like skills to make sense of large amounts of information and tackle complex, multistep tasks. The company said it can accomplish in minutes what would take a human several hours. Some queries, however, may take up to 30 minutes as the AI sifts through hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report. The tool runs on OpenAI's o3 model, which uses search to interpret and analyze text, images and PDFs. At the time, OpenAI said Deep Research is intended for people who require intensive research in areas like finance, science, policy and engineering. But it could also be helpful for general consumers, such as shoppers looking for hyper-personalized recommendations on cars and appliances, according to the company.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Yahoo
Microsoft Copilot 現在免費提供由 OpenAI o1 模型推動的「Voice」及「Think Deeper」
微軟稍早宣布，將在其 Copilot AI 助理中免費、無限次數地提供「Voice」和「Think Deeper」兩項功能，兩項功能皆由 OpenAI 的 o1 模型提供支援。 Copilot 是在去年 10 月獲得了 Voice 功能，允許用戶與 AI 助理進行對話。Think Deeper 則是運用了 o1 模型的推理思考能力，可以回答更加複雜的問題。 微軟在部落格文章中指出，由於運算力的限制，這些剛剛免費化的 Copilot 應用在使用量高的時候，用戶可能會遇到延遲或中斷，而微軟也正在努力擴大伺服器的負載，以盡快讓更多用戶可以無限次使用新功能。不過，真的受不了了的話，Copilot 會員會有優先使用權，在高負載時也能優先使用 Copilot 上最新的 AI 模型，同時也能優先嘗試仍處於實驗階段的新功能。 相關新聞： Announcing Free, Unlimited Access to Think Deeper and Voice Microsoft 更新 Copilot AI，未來將能使用語音並看到你瀏覽的網頁 緊貼最新科技資訊、網購優惠，追隨 Yahoo Tech 各大社交平台！ 🎉📱 Tech Facebook： 🎉📱 Tech Instagram： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 社群： 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 頻道： 🎉📱 Tech Telegram 頻道：
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26-02-2025
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Microsoft Lets Free Copilot AI Users Use Voice Conversation and Complex Query Tools
If you're a Copilot user, you now have more artificial intelligence tools at your fingertips: Microsoft is giving unlimited free access to Voice and Think Deeper on its free tier. Voice lets you have a conversation with the AI tool using verbal commands, while Think Deeper allows for more complex questions than regular Copilot, as it has more advanced reasoning powered by OpenAI's o1 model. Copilot, launched in 2022, is Microsoft's entry in the increasingly competitive world of AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. As tech companies compete against each other and new Chinese entrant DeepSeek for a foothold, they continue releasing new AI-powered features and tools -- and are now providing more for free after DeepSeek launched an entirely free service. These Voice and Think Deeper features are variations on interface, giving users different ways to engage with Microsoft's AI offerings. CNET Senior Editor and computing expert Lori Grunin tested Think Deeper out on Tuesday, confirming that while it's free, "at one point it stopped providing new answers to refined queries and a 'Get the full Copilot experience' popup and tried to get me to sign in." Grunin added that it didn't obey specific parameters during her test, either. I gave Voice a go without signing into a Copilot account, and it greeted me like a voice assistant, letting me know I can chat to it "just like with a mate" (it had a male, British accent, though it noted I could change how it sounded in the settings) and asking me my name. Its follow-up question, after mispronouncing my name, was the ever-generic: "What's on your mind?" I asked it the weather in my city, and it gave me up-to-date information as well as a recommendation to get "out and about" in the unseasonably sunny, warm weather. But it then told me I only had 2 minutes remaining of Voice time. So you really do have to create an account and sign in to get that unlimited access announced today. (When I closed the voice chat, Copilot gave me a transcript of our call.) You can become a Copilot user for free -- just sign up using a Microsoft email address. The free version limits what features you have access to, slows down your responses after 15 "boosts" per day and only gives you access to the latest models during non-peak times. There's a paid tier called Copilot Pro ($20/month) and an enterprise version that starts at $30 per user per month. Some of Microsoft's suggestions include using Voice for practicing a new language, asking it to help you practice for a job interview or asking it out loud for cooking advice or recipe steps while your hands are busy in the kitchen -- kind of like a voice assistant. For Think Deeper, Microsoft says some of the more complex issues it can help you with are comparing electric vehicles, asking it for home renovation advice and checking for the pros and cons of buying a generator for outages. As with all AI tools, you should be wary of what it advises you to do, however, and CNET recommends double checking everything it comes back with -- whether it's on-the-fly cooking advice that may lead you astray thanks to a hallucination, or coming up with a savings plan that makes no financial sense. You also shouldn't ever tell an AI chatbot any of your personal details, including financial information, lest a data breach leak it to malefactors. That said, our CNET review found Copilot to be one of the better AI tools, giving it a 7/10 as it generally provides accurate and relevant information. Senior writer Imad Khan does recommend Anthropic's Claude as the best AI chatbot, however, saying it "does a consistent job and goes further than what's coming out of Google, Microsoft, Perplexity and OpenAI at the free tier."
