{"id":924495,"date":"2023-03-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?p=924495"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:18:16","slug":"ai-explainer-foundation-models-and-the-next-era-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/ai-explainer-foundation-models-and-the-next-era-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Explainer: Foundation models \u200band the next era of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The release of OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions\u2014<\/em>from summarizing lengthy documents, to answering complex questions about a wide range of topics and explaining the reasoning behind those answers, to telling jokes and writing code and poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Senior Principal Research Manager Ahmed H. Awadallah<\/a> was among a group of researchers across the company who have worked in partnership with OpenAI over several months to evaluate this new model\u2019s capabilities. In this video, recapped below, he tells the story of the technical innovations in recent years that have brought us to this moment: the surprising progress of GPT-4’s predecessor models, leading up to the capabilities demonstrated in ChatGPT, and the integration of the latest models into Bing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n