Copilot, a virtual assistant from Microsoft that is powered by generative AI which you find in the Windows 11 operating system and other services from the company, currently runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM). There’s some good news for people using this service. Soon, Copilot is going to be upgraded with a more advanced LLM.
A new post from Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, suggests that the company will soon run Copilot on GPT-4 Turbo, which is the latest version of the LLM from OpenAI and an upgrade to GPT-4. According to him, there are still a “few kinks” that need to be ironed out before Microsoft makes it available to the public.
What improvements does GPT-4 Turbo offer over GPT-4?
GPT-4 Turbo offers a bunch of benefits over GPT-4. For starters, it has an updated knowledge base, allowing it access to information up to April 2023. Plus, it has a context window that can handle up to 1,28,000 characters, which is equivalent to around 300 pages, allowing people to make longer queries. OpenAI says “The model is also 3X cheaper for input tokens and 2X cheaper for output tokens compared to the original GPT-4 model.”
