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
Intelligent document and email processing
Documents can vary in type: structured documents, like invoices and receipts, or unstructured documents, such as resumes and contracts. Automating data extraction from documents can accelerate tedious manual processes and reduce the risk of errors. With AI Builder, an AI model can extract content for you through a controlled process where you specify which fields to capture, and the system is refined with feedback and human review for quality assurance.
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 can be 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.
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| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license AI Builder. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for AI Builder. |
| User community | Engage with AI Builder experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with AI Builder. |