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📝 Editorial: Microsoft’s New ML Announcements

Another week another tech giant unveils a new set of machine learning (ML) technologies. The ML race between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft made us accustomed to several instances of splashy announcements each year. Last week was Microsoft’s turn. At its annual Build Conference, Microsoft made ML front and center with a series of innovative announcements ranging from hardware to cloud ML services to partnerships.

One of the announcements that have the Microsoft developer community super excited is the integration of GitHub’s CoPilot, powered by OpenAI’s Codex, as a native Visual Studio extension. This would be the first iteration of incorporating AI-assisted programming as part of a major IDE. The…