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RSS feedMarch 2024
Public Preview: Safety evaluations for generative AI applications in Azure AI Studio
Target availability: Q1 2024
Measure your generative AI application’s susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and to producing unsafe content, so you can implement effective mitigations and go from prototype to production with confidence.
February 2024
Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.
November 2023
Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November
Target availability: Q4 2023
Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure
Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
October 2023
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for October
Three features now available in GA enable you to streamline your network isolation experience, deploy your model locally prior to production, and automate the ML lifecycle without accruing extra compute hours or requiring manual intervention.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October
Four features now available in Public Preview enable you to customize your compute instance experience by using curated or custom environments, collect all model dependencies in a single operation to generate a package than can be move and deployed across environments, label your images at each pixel level with high quality, and conenct and fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with Azure Machine Learning.
September 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for September
Three new features now available in Public Preview enable you to utilize vision-based models in the model catalog, enjoy seamless integration with LLMOps through the Prompt Flow SDK/CLI and VS Code extensions, and monitor LLM completions for safety and quality metrics.
August 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for August
Two new features now available in PuPr enable you to work with improved data size and model support and generate a default Responsible AI dashboard for the best AutoML model.
July 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July
A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace.
June 2023
Available: Reduced pricing for Azure Video Indexer
Azure Video indexer will be adding Advanced Audio and Video SKUs for Advanced presets and a 40% price reduction on the Basic Audio Analysis, Audio Analysis and Video Analysis SKUs.
Azure Machine Learning - June 2023 PuPr Announcement - View status of jobs in Azure Pipelines
New feature now available in Public Preview enables you to view job statuses without unnecessary compute cost accrual.
Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports gpt-35-turbo at launch.
May 2023
Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.
AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build
New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build
New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
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