11 months ago

No prizes for guessing the focus of this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference. Of course, it was AI — just as it had been https://thenewstack.io/generative-ai-thread-runs-through-googles-new-products/ earlier this month. But whereas Google’s AI announcements seemed disorganised and all over the map, Microsoft came up with a cohesive framework to entice developers: its new “Copilot stack.”

Scott said that Microsoft has built a “Copilot technology stack” for developers, enabling them to add AI functionality to any software — in other words, a “copilot.”

For prompt engineering, which Guthrie reiterated is a part of the orchestration layer of the copilot stack, Microsoft is introducing a new framework called Prompt Flow.