Plan and prepare for AI Builder in 2024 release wave 2
Important
The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for AI Builder.
Overview
AI Builder is a low-code AI platform that allows you to use and customize the latest AI models from Azure AI to build intelligent business solutions across Power Platform. AI Builder gives access to the latest Azure AI capabilities, including GPT and document intelligence. This access is done through a form factor that's easily accessible to citizen developers, follows responsible AI principles, and includes enterprise-grade governance and security.
As part of 2024 release wave 2, AI Builder has investments across the following themes:
- Generative AI prompts: To create advanced AI actions that can be used across copilots, apps built in Power Apps, and Power Automate flows, use AI prompts. New investments include supporting the latest large language models, extending grounding data sources to unstructured data, supporting multi-modal inputs (documents, images), and extending output possibilities (documents, cards).
- Prompt catalog: Share and reuse prompts across your organization with new prompt template sets.
- AI governance: Control which AI capabilities are available to makers across environments.
Updates to AI Builder 2024 release wave 2
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
Build intelligent solutions with AI capabilities
This area covers all AI model capabilities that are newly available to makers to build more intelligent solutions with AI. It includes expanding the breadth of AI capabilities and the integration surfaces across Microsoft where AI Builder is available.
Extend copilot capabilities with AI
Copilots make business users more productive and satisfied at work. But to truly revolutionize the workplace, copilots need to operate in the specific context of each enterprise.
You can author topics using natural language to describe what you want your topic to do. Copilot includes conversational responses, which you can use as a starting point for further development. For example, makers can add Dataverse data records to their GPT prompts, allowing users to get insights. In addition, you can interact with documents directly from copilot tools, which gives you the ability to quickly extract key learning points from documents. It also generates new document templates to enhance productivity.
Intelligent document and email processing
With AI Builder, organizations can empower their users to set up document processing capabilities to automatically extract and process content included in documents. Documents can vary in type: structured documents, like invoices and receipts, or unstructured documents, such as a resume or a contract. Automating the process of extracting data from documents can speed up manual processes that are tedious to manage and can be very error prone. With AI Builder, an AI model can do the content extraction for you, in a controlled process that includes defining which fields to extract and can be augmented with feedback loops and human in the loop validation.
As AI capabilities get more advanced, the process of customizing an AI model to understand specific documents gets easier. AI Builder focuses on simplifying the process of setting up intelligent document processing pipelines by making sure the best and latest document processing models from Azure AI are available. It also focuses on limiting the need for model training by using generative AI capabilities.
Prompt builder
Prompt builder is AI Builder's new interface that allows you to build, test, and deploy generative AI prompts for large language models. Prompts are instructions sent to generative AI models to accomplish a task. You can use prompts to perform a wide range of scenarios, like content generation, content classification, insight generation, or information extraction.
Once you create a prompt, you can use it across multiple Power Platform products to invoke generative AI capabilities in every business solution that you are building, whether it's a copilot, an app, a flow, or a Microsoft Dataverse table. Prompts are also solution-aware components and are triggered with Power Fx expressions. This allows you to reuse and deploy them 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.