Michael Schechter

No NY - Seattle, London and Cairo

If you’re looking to hire great engineers, experienced at building AI products at scale, DM me - I have a number of people I’d love to recommend

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I was honored to help tell the story of Bing (and to be quoted!) in the new book, “The Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft,” which is on shelves today - I’ve had my copy for a few weeks and really enjoyed it. a.co/d/fp9rCEa

She’s getting big

Woken up by the puppy every few hours!

Golden Retriever

Got a puppy on Black Friday

Ground your AI agents with knowledge from Bing Search, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint and more | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming preview of Azure AI Agent Service, a comprehensive suite of capabilities designed to empower developers to...

Lots of cool announcements from #MSIgnite this morning, including some work form my team! As part of the preview of Azure AI Agents Service, you'll be able to ground your agent responses with fresh and relevant results powered by Bing. More info here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-a...

What’s everyone using to migrate your following list over to here?

“Well, maybe this is a good way to finally break my Twitter habit…”

*Immediately starts refreshing Blue Sky and Mastodon*

Seattle weather is doing its best to compete with Zelda for attention this weekend

Based on the DNS verification I assume so

Thanks to the team for the tireless work to bring new innovation to search, and to our passionate users for their ongoing feedback!

Announcing the next wave of AI innovation with Microsoft Bing and Edge - The Official Microsoft Blog Just three months ago, we unveiled the new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge to reinvent the future of search with your copilot for the web. We aimed to tackle a universal problem with traditional search – that nearly half of all web searches go unanswered, resulting in billions of people’s searches falling short of the...

We announced a boatload of new features for Bing Chat this morning including:
- image and video answers
- history
- export / share
- multimodal chats
- support for plug-ins

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/05/04/announcing-the-next-wave-of-ai-innovation-with-microsoft-bing-and-edge/

Listening to the Kraken game using the TuneIn app

I’ve think I’ve made 2 good tweets in 15 years - hoping for a higher skeet success rate

Our weekly new Bing release notes are now posted: https://blogs.bing.com/search/april-2023/Bing-Preview-Release-Notes-Travel-and-Recipe-Grounding-Improvements

I’ve been in Brussels this week and this amazing sculpture is in front of the European Parliament

Feeling a lot of pressure to make a good first post, so I’ll just make this one instead. 😅