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Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality 

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The past year has been one of true transformation. Companies are seeing real benefits today and are eager to explore what’s next—including how they can do more with their data investments, build intelligent applications, and uncover what AI can do for their business.

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Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality 

By Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Application, Product Marketing 

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The past year has been one of true transformation. Companies are seeing real benefits today and are eager to explore what’s next—including how they can do more with their data investments, build intelligent applications, and uncover what AI can do for their business.

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Published • 6 min read

Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure in the era of AI 

By General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

With Azure, you can trust that you are on a secure and well-managed foundation to utilize the latest advancements in AI and cloud-native services. Azure is adaptive and purpose-built for all your workloads, helping you seamlessly unify and manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions. 

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Published • 4 min read

Azure sets a scale record in large language model training 

By Principal Software Engineer, Technical Program Manager 2, Microsoft, and Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Customers need reliable and performant infrastructure to bring the most sophisticated AI use cases to market in record time. Our objective is to build state-of-the-art infrastructure and meet these demands. The latest MLPerf™ 3.1 Training results1 are a testament to our unwavering commitment to building high-quality and high-performance systems in the cloud to achieve unparalleled efficiency in training LLMs at scale.

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Published • 2 min read

Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities 

By Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Application, Product Marketing 

With these announcements from OpenAI DevDay, developers and enterprises are now poised to explore new horizons, empowered by the combined strengths of Microsoft and OpenAI, and the limitless possibilities of generative AI.

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Published • 5 min read

Microsoft is now a FinOps Certified Service Provider 

By Modern Service Management Solutions Architect

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, efficient financial management is the linchpin that keeps organizations agile and cost-effective. In support of that, we are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has achieved a milestone that reaffirms our commitment to empowering our customers and partners in their journey towards optimized cloud spending. We are now a FinOps Certified Service Provider.

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Published • 4 min read

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure 

By General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

This year, Gartner introduced a Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI). Gartner defines DHI as “offerings that deliver cloud-native infrastructure attributes, which can be deployed and operated where the customer prefers. Offerings are software and or integrated hardware with a unified control plane. Distributed hybrid infrastructure provides the foundation for the deployment of applications in a distributed manner that retains a cloud-defined or cloud-inspired approach”. We are thrilled to share that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in this new category.

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Building for the future: The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI 

By Corporate Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Azure Machine Learning

The enterprise development process requires collaboration, diligent evaluation, risk management, and scaled deployment. By providing a robust suite of capabilities supporting these challenges, Azure AI affords a clear and efficient path to generating value in your products for your customers.

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