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Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available
Azure Cognitive Search has expanded language and regional availability.
Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Video Analyzer updates in public preview
Azure Video Analyzer now has new cloud-based capabilities that deliver low-latency available in preview.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
October 2021
Public preview: Azure Percept DK September (2109) software update is available
The Azure Percept September update includes fixes related to security and Wi-Fi/Network.
OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.
Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3
Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in West US 3.
Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 generally available capabilities
New features now generally available include authenticate with Managed Identities, simplify data upload with dataset uploads, parallel run step with partitioned dataset, and create and edit environments using Environments UI.
Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 public preview capabilities
New features now available in public preview include compute instance and cluster No Public IP, Hashicorp Terraform configuration templates, and AutoML for images.
General availability: Azure Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects
Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects to help you streamline your translation workflows.
Azure Applied AI Services | Latest public preview enhancements to Azure Form Recogniser
Azure Form Recogniser now offers a pre-built version of the service in preview for document extraction as well as the following capabilities in preview: signature detection, hotel receipt processing and deeper extraction of content from US driving licences. In addition, the service is now easier to use with Form Recogniser Studio and new REST APIs.
September 2021
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – Sep 2021
Target availability: Q3 2021
New feature Multiple Private Endpoint for Workspace is now available in public preview in Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning now generally available in Japan West
Azure Machine Learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in Japan West.
August 2021
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will retire on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will be retired by 31 August 2024 – transition to Azure Machine Learning.
Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – August 2021
New features Cross Location Compute, Hierarchical Time Series and Compute Instance auto-shutdown and auto-start capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Public preview: Azure Percept DK July (2107) software update is available
The Azure Percept July update includes fixes related to security, Wi-Fi/Network, and OOBE UI localization.
July 2021
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021
New features Custom Containers in Managed Online Endpoints and Job Creation UI are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Public Preview: Form Recognizer container support
Announcing the public preview release of Form Recognizer containers. Form Recognizer is now also available in the following docker containers - Layout, Business Card, ID Document, Receipt, Invoice and Custom containers for you to run locally.
June 2021
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain.
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