Microsoft and Meta Team Up to Offer New AI Software

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Microsoft announced a new artificial intelligence partnership and pricing for its AI-powered workplace software. WSJ Microsoft reporter Tom Dotan joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the news and what it says about Microsoft's AI strategy. Plus, a look at digital mood trackers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mazaars is an independent audit, tax, and advisory firm with local roots and international
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0:09.5	Learn more at M-A-Z-A-R-S dot U-S slash forward.
0:17.8	Welcome to Tech News Breathing, it's Wednesday, July 19.
0:24.5	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.8	More apps can help you track your mood.
0:30.7	It's part of a growing effort by tech companies to help users measure their health and improve
0:35.9	overall well-being.
0:37.7	Apple has plans to get into this space this fall.
0:41.5	But just how effective can these tools really be?
0:45.5	Our family and tech columnist Julie Jargon will join us to discuss.
0:52.3	But first, Microsoft and Facebook Parent Meta announced a new partnership on Tuesday.
0:57.8	Microsoft will release an updated version of Meta's artificial intelligence language
1:03.1	model called Lama 2.
1:05.3	The companies said the model would be free to developers building software on Microsoft's
1:10.1	Azure Cloud Computing platform.
1:12.8	And it wasn't the only AI news Microsoft released yesterday.
1:17.0	Our reporter Tom DeTont has been covering this and is with me now.
1:21.2	So Tom, let's begin with this partnership.
1:23.5	What exactly does it do?
1:24.9	This partnership is putting Meta's large language model Lama onto Microsoft's Cloud Computing
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