Data
Raw values with no meaning attached. Numbers, text, images, signals, rows in a table. A reading of 47 is data. It tells you nothing until you know 47 of what, measured when, against what baseline. Every AI system starts here, both in training and in what it retrieves at runtime, and the quality of everything downstream is set at this layer.
AI doesn’t think. AI computes.
…or decisions. Machine learning chains them into systems that find patterns in data on their own. The simplest way to hunt a pattern is to break information into elementary logical paths, a sequence of questions where each answer narrows the field until…
Attention Is All You Need – why transformers changed artificial intelligence
…for more than two decades. Classic neural networks did well on tasks where all the data was available at once — image analysis, for example. Language works differently. The meaning of a sentence depends on word order, and often on context sitting many words…
Copilot adds new value to Word and Excel
…the meetings, documents, emails and business records a company holds, including data from Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.1 Its agents act under the company’s permissions, audit and governance.1 in spring 2026: it built AI into the core of the platform,3…