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March 2024

28 Mar

Public Preview: Safety evaluations for generative AI applications in Azure AI Studio

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure AI Studio
  • Features

February 2024

1 Feb

Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

November 2023

15 Nov

Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Security
15 Nov

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

NOW AVAILABLE

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.  

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure

IN PREVIEW

Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite

October 2023

16 Oct

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for October

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features
16 Oct

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October

IN PREVIEW

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. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Features

September 2023

14 Sep

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for September

IN PREVIEW

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​. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

August 2023

16 Aug

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for August

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

July 2023

19 Jul

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Features
19 Jul

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July

NOW AVAILABLE

A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

Available: Reduced pricing for Azure Video Indexer

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
13 Jun

Azure Machine Learning - June 2023 PuPr Announcement - View status of jobs in Azure Pipelines

IN PREVIEW

New feature now available in Public Preview enables you to view job statuses without unnecessary compute cost accrual.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
12 Jun

Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports gpt-35-turbo at launch.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Regions & Datacenters

May 2023

24 May

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

IN PREVIEW

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
12 May

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.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Retirements
  • Features

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