Microsoft Copilot and Windows AI event: all the news

Microsoft is launching a redesigned version of Copilot today, aiming to be an AI assistant or assistant. To celebrate, Microsoft’s new AI CEO, Mustafa Suleiman, penned a 700-plus-word note about what he describes as a “technological paradigm shift” toward AI models that can understand what people see and hear.

Suleyman joined Microsoft earlier this year as CEO of its new Microsoft AI division, as the software giant hired a number of key Inflection AI staff. In June, Suleiman sparked controversy after brazenly claiming that everything published on the internet was “free software” that could be copied, recreated and replicated by AI models. He is optimistic that AI, now under Microsoft’s stewardship, will create “a calmer, more helpful and supportive technology era unlike anything we’ve seen before.”