^{Original article from Yahoo Finance by Daniel Howley}

Microsoft (MSFT), on Tuesday, announced a new service that will allow enterprises to build their own AI-powered apps. Unveiled at Microsoft’s annual Build conference, the offering, known as Azure AI Studio, is one of a slew of AI-based products the tech giant is rolling out as it seeks to become the go-to name in AI in Silicon Valley and beyond.

According to Microsoft, Azure AI Studio will allow companies to create custom apps using ChatGPT and GPT-4. Microsoft refers to these as apps as copilots, because in addition to capabilities found in the company’s Bing Chat like searching for data on the web, copilots can be used to access and process a firm’s unique data as well.

According to Eric Boyd, Microsoft CVP of Azure AI, a business with a number of different health-care plans could create a copilot that helps employees easily search for the appropriate plan for them. So if an employee is needs insurance that covers eyeglasses they’d be able to use the co…