Microsoft Empowers Developers to Create Custom AI Assistants and Bots.

Microsoft has launched Azure AI Studio, a new capability within the Azure OpenAI Service that allows customers to combine OpenAI's machine learning models with their own data to build chat assistants or other types of apps that "reasons over" private data. The copilot-building process starts with selecting a generative AI model like GPT-4 and giving the copilot a "meta-prompt," or a base description of the copilot's role and how it should function. Microsoft is making a push for customized models built using its cloud-hosted tooling, potentially a lucrative line of revenue as the Azure OpenAI Service continues to grow.