Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, integrated into Windows 11, will soon move to the GPT-4 Turbo language model.

General Director of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, Mikhail Parakhin, said that the company still needs to correct some shortcomings. However, no time frame for the transition has been announced yet.

As a reminder, GPT-4 Turbo features a large number of improvements relative to GPT-4, including a context window for 128,000 tokens. True, with Copilot it may well be limited.

In addition, this language model is trained on data up to April 2023, which gives it an advantage over older versions.

Samsung today unexpectedly launched its browser on PC. The Samsung Internet app is now available in the Microsoft Store.

In the case of Android, let us remind you that the application is called Samsung Internet Browser, but this, of course, does not change the essence. There is only one screenshot in the Windows store in which the Samsung browser is no different from Chrome.

Actually, this is not surprising, given that most third-party browsers for Windows rely on the Blink engine, which also underlies Chrome. But the developers of many well-known browsers are trying to make their applications unique, at least externally, but this is not yet the case. But Samsung Internet will allow owners of Galaxy smartphones to synchronize data on their PC with the browser on their mobile devices. True, so far this function works only partially, allowing you to synchronize your browsing history, bookmarks, saved pages and open tabs, but not passwords.

Let us remind you that today we learned that Samsung may abandon the Exynos brand.

Microsoft releases a new and highly sought-after Windows-themed “ugly sweater” every holiday season. Last year we had a Clippy sweater. A year earlier, a Paint-themed sweater was released. This year, Windows Ugly Sweater received the default Windows XP wallpaper, also known as “Bliss”.

Many consider the Bliss wallpaper to be the most viewed photo in the world. It depicts a green hill under a cloudy blue sky and was used as the default wallpaper on millions of Windows computers between 2001 and 2008.

The image was taken by photographer Charles O’Rear in 1996 before Microsoft bought the rights to it in 2000 for a rumored “low six-figure” sum. Incredibly, O’Rear claims that the photograph has not been digitally altered. The hill is located next to a busy highway in Sonoma, California, although these days it’s home to a vineyard and doesn’t look much like the iconic photo.

Microsoft says all proceeds will go to The Nature Conservancy, an organization dedicated to “conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends.”

This year’s sweater is available in limited quantities directly from the Xbox Gear Shop for $70.