Friday, January 17, 2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot = Office

Microsoft's dumbest rebrand in its near 50 year history just got even dumber | Windows Central

Synonymous with Windows, for the past several decades, is its suite of productivity tools known to the vast majority of the globe as "Microsoft Office." At least, it used to be.

A couple of years ago, Microsoft inexplicably rebranded it to "Microsoft 365," throwing away decades of brand recognition and removing the actual function of the product from its name.

"Microsoft 365" is still called "Microsoft 365 (Office)" on app stores like Android

Microsoft has decided to take it to the next level with "Microsoft 365 Copilot"



AI: Agentic RAG workflow + Multimodal RAG

How I finally got agentic RAG to work right (@vectorize.io)

by Chris Latimer | LinkedIn


Chain of Thought with agentic RAG systems

This problem required the LLM to performing reasoning such as:
  • Deciding what steps to take next to get closer to solving the user’s problem.
  • Deciding when it had found a solution to the problem
  • Decide when to give up and bring a human into the loop
OpenAI gpt-4o models, using structured responses with strict=true (JSON)





Multimodal RAG Patterns Every AI Developer Should Know - Vectorize