Cerence, Microsoft announce new mobile work AI agent

Cerence (CRNC) announced that it will bring to market a new mobile work AI agent in close collaboration with Microsoft (MSFT). The AI agent will run on Cerence xUI, the company’s agentic AI assistant platform, and will integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing people who choose to work in the car to do so more safely and securely through voice-first access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Outlook and OneNote. Since early 2024, Cerence AI has collaborated with Microsoft to deliver an automotive-grade implementation to millions of vehicles, enabling users to access ChatGPT through Microsoft Azure OpenAI in AI Foundry Models. Through the companies’ collaboration, automotive OEMs and their customers have benefitted from Cerence AI’s deep vertical expertise combined with Microsoft cloud and AI capabilities. In addition, Cerence AI has developed and optimized CaLLM Edge, its automotive-grade, embedded small language model in collaboration with Microsoft, leveraging Microsoft’s Phi-3 family of SLMs and Cerence’s automotive dataset to deliver AI that can handle a variety of automotive use cases.