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July 2022

15 Jul

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: July 01, 2023

The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

October 2019

2 Oct

Twelve Cognitive Services are available for free with an Azure free account

NOW AVAILABLE

Twelve Cognitive Services are now available for free with an Azure free account. Give your apps, websites and bots the ability to see, understand and interpret people’s needs using natural methods of communication.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services

August 2019

7 Aug

Cognitive Services - Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2019

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

April 2019

2 Apr

Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.

  • Video Indexer
  • Compliance

March 2019

26 Mar

Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.

  • Video Indexer
  • Compliance

November 2018

14 Nov

Azure Cognitive Services Containers are in preview

IN PREVIEW

Deploy Azure Cognitive Services on-premises and on the edge with container support in Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services containers allow developers to use the same intelligent APIs that are available in Azure, but with the flexibility that comes with Docker containers.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services

October 2018

17 Oct

Azure Cognitive Services available in new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

New regions are now available for Azure Cognitive Services. The Content Moderator, Computer Vision, Face, Translator Text and Language Understanding (LUIS) Services are now generally available in US Government regions.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services

May 2017

11 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services – Video Indexer

IN PREVIEW

Video Indexer will soon be available free in preview. This new service will represent one of the industry’s most comprehensive video AI services.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

April 2016

1 Apr

Public preview: Microsoft Cognitive Services

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs available to developers to make their applications more intelligent and engaging.

  • Services

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