Plan and prepare for AI Builder in 2024 release wave 1

Overview

AI Builder is a low-code AI platform that you can use to customize the latest AI models from Azure AI. With AI Builder, you can build more intelligent business solutions. You get access to all the latest Azure AI capabilities—including GPT and document intelligence—in a form that's easy for citizen developers to use. AI Builder follows responsible AI principles and includes enterprise-grade governance and security. The core capabilities of AI Builder include:

• GPT models and prompts: Build, test, and deploy GPT prompts to get extensive value from the latest generative AI capabilities in Azure's OpenAI service.
• Pre-trained AI models: Pre-trained AI models that you can use right away to perform specific scenarios like invoice processing, sentiment analysis, text translation, and optical character recognition.
• Customizable AI Models: Create AI models that fit your specific business needs. Key model-building capabilities include intelligent document processing, email classification, object detection, and prediction scenarios.
• Governance and Security: Manage who can access AI technology and monitor AI usage in your organization.

Updates to AI Builder 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

AI governance and administration
Governance and administration cover the key sets of themes that allow admins to deploy and monitor AI activities:

• Capacity management
• Usage monitoring
• Application lifecycle management
• Access control
• Sharing and deploying AI models and prompts

Extend copilot capabilities with AI
Copilot helps business users become more productive and satisfied at work. To truly transform the workplace, Copilot needs to work within the specific context of each enterprise.

You can create topics by using natural language to describe what you want your topic to do. Copilot includes conversational responses that you can use as a starting point for further development. For example, you can add Dataverse data records to your GPT prompts so users can get insights. You can also interact with documents directly from the Copilot tools. This interaction lets you quickly extract key learning points from documents. Copilot also generates new document templates to boost productivity.

Prompt builder
Prompt builder is AI Builder's new interface that you use to build, test, and deploy generative AI prompts for large language models. Prompts are instructions that you send to generative AI models to accomplish a task. Use prompts to perform a wide range of scenarios, like content generation, content classification, insight generation, or information extraction.

When you create a prompt, use it across multiple Power Platform products to bring generative AI capabilities to every business solution you build, whether it's a copilot, an app, a flow, or a Microsoft Dataverse table. Prompts are also solution-aware components that Power Fx expressions trigger. With this approach, you can reuse and deploy prompts across your different low-code components.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for AI Builder below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

Get the most out of AI Builder