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SDAIA, NVIDIA Presidents Discuss Computing Power Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
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SDAIA, NVIDIA Presidents Discuss Computing Power Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) Dr. Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi welcomed on Sunday the Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, at the authority’s headquarters in Riyadh.
During the meeting, Alghamdi and Huang discussed areas of mutual cooperation between SDAIA and NVIDIA, particularly in technological projects and exchange of expertise in the fields of data and artificial intelligence.
They also explored the latest developments in data and AI worldwide and highlighted NVIDIA's participation in the Global Smart City Forum (GSCF 2024) organized by SDAIA in Riyadh on February 12 and 13, SPA reported.
The meeting reflects ongoing cooperation between SDAIA and NVIDIA, especially in launching a multi-year program to establish a high-performance supercomputing platform in the Kingdom.
The platform will contribute to the development of various AI-supported applications in language technology and computer vision, helping to achieve the aspirations of AI adoption in the Kingdom.

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Microsoft Revamps AI Copilot with New Voice, Reasoning Capabilities

Copilot logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters)
Copilot logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters)
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Microsoft Revamps AI Copilot with New Voice, Reasoning Capabilities

Copilot logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters)
Copilot logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters)

Microsoft has given its consumer Copilot, an artificial intelligence assistant, a more amiable voice in its latest update, with the chatbot also capable of analyzing web pages for interested users as they browse.

The US software maker now has "an entire army" of creative directors - among them psychologists, novelists and comedians - finessing the tone and style of Copilot to distinguish it, Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, told Reuters in an interview.

In one demonstration of the updated Copilot, a consumer asked what housewarming gift to buy at a grocery store for a friend who did not drink wine. After some back-and-forth, Copilot said aloud: "Italian (olive) oils are the hot stuff right now. Tuscan's my go-to. Super peppery."

The feature rollout, starting Tuesday, is one of the first that Suleyman has overseen since Microsoft created his division in March to focus on consumer products and technology research.

Long identified with business software, Microsoft has had a much harder road in the consumer realm. Its Bing search engine, for instance, is still dwarfed by Google.

Suleyman is hoping for a bigger splash with Copilot, which launched last year in a crowded field of AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

Copilot's newly fashioned voice capabilities make it seem much more of an active listener, giving verbal cues like "cool" and "huh," Suleyman said.

Underlying the product are Microsoft AI, or "MAI," models, plus a technology suite from partner OpenAI, Suleyman said.

Suleyman added that consumers who spend $20 monthly for Copilot Pro can start testing a "Think Deeper" feature that reasons through choices, like whether to move to one city or another.

He said an additional test feature for paying subscribers, Copilot Vision, amounts to "digital pointing" - the ability for users to talk to AI about what they see in a Microsoft Edge browser. Consumers have to opt in, and the content they view will not be saved or used to train AI, Microsoft said.

These updates represent "glimmers" of AI that can be an "ever-present confidant, in your corner," Suleyman said. It's a vision he articulated as CEO of Inflection AI, whose top talent Microsoft poached in a closely watched deal this year.

Suleyman said that eventually, Copilot will learn context from consumers' Word documents, Windows desktops, even their gaming consoles if they grant permission.

Asked what Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, thinks of the company's AI efforts, Suleyman said Gates was excited.

"He's always asking me about when Copilot can read and parse his emails. It's one of his favorite ones," Suleyman said. "We're on the case."