Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Advanced AI usually comes to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code before the company's Visual Studio IDE, due to the architectural differences of a lightweight, open-source-based code editor supplemented by ...

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With the emergence of huge amounts of heterogeneous multi-modal data, including images, videos, texts/languages, audios, and multi-sensor data, deep learning-based methods have shown promising ...

Crucially, these tests are generated by custom code and don’t rely on pre-existing images or tests that could be found on the public Internet, thereby “minimiz[ing] the chance that VLMs can solve by ...

Bottom line: Recent advancements in AI systems have significantly improved their ability to recognize and analyze complex images. However, a new paper reveals that many state-of-the-art visual ...

On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ ...

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...