Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

Microsoft updated its AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, now supporting the ability to "bring your own model" for use in the open-source-based code editor. The toolkit, still in preview, was ...

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.

Have you ever felt like you’re only scratching the surface when it comes to using AI tools? Sure, the big names get all the attention, but what about the hidden gems—the tools quietly transforming ...

Data modeling tools play an important role in business, representing how data flows through an organization. It’s important for businesses to understand what the best data modeling tools are across ...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...