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While almost every respondent said they used AI coding tools, only 38% of developers in the US said their organizations actively encouraged adoption.
The updated family of models from Microsoft outperformed rival models from Meta and Google across several benchmarks, falling behind only OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini.
Microsoft opened its AI-focused .NET conference emphasizing developer tools integrating AI with .NET, including GitHub Copilot.
The new approach trains LLMs to create their own training data for evaluation purposes.
Understanding the lumpy pattern of technological evolution is essential for organizations that want to make informed decisions about when to invest in and adopt new technologies.
Artificial intelligence will redefine cloud security with adaptive frameworks, enhanced threat intelligence, and predictive analytics to usher in an era of proactive protection.
Using cached prompts can save up to 90% on API input costs, the company said.
Any leading large language model will do. To succeed with retrieval-augmented generation, focus on optimizing the retrieval model and ensuring high-quality data.
Microsoft has open sourced a key piece of its AI security, offering a toolkit that links data sets to targets and scores results, in the cloud or with small language models.
The Open Model Initiative aims to create what it calls community LLMs that are equal or better in quality to proprietary models, but free of restrictive licensing terms that limit their usage.