Microsoft Offers Free Azure Application 'Private ChatGPT'


Microsoft to invest an additional $5.4 billion in Canada over two years to enhance digital and AI infrastructure, bringing total investment to $13.7 billion from 2023-2027. New cloud and AI capabilities expected by late 2025, marking its largest commitment since entering Canada in 1985.....
Microsoft plans to invest $17.5 billion in India over four years to expand AI and cloud computing, including new data centers, AI facilities, and digital skills training, aiming to help India become a global tech hub. This marks Microsoft's largest investment in Asia, targeting India's vast internet user market.....
Microsoft open-sources the real-time speech model VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, which offers extremely low latency and near-human voice performance. The model takes an average of only 300 milliseconds from text input to voice output, far less than traditional TTS models (1-3 seconds), achieving almost zero latency real-time speech synthesis.
Microsoft's AI service sales have encountered setbacks, with targets reduced by 50%. Although AI technology is popular, companies are unwilling to fully replace human labor, leading to poor performance by the Microsoft Azure sales team.
Microsoft denies lowering AI business growth targets despite reports of some sales teams missing performance goals.....