Eric Boyd posts

Corporate Vice President, Azure AI Platform, Microsoft

Eric Boyd leads the global AI Platform team within Microsoft’s Cloud + AI division – a team whose mission is to deliver the Copilot Stack for Microsoft, Enterprises and Developer, powering every application with intelligent capabilities. To deliver on the mission, the team manages the deployment and optimization of a broad selection of best-in-class foundation and open source Generative AI models that support customer choice and cost effectiveness. The AI Platform team also spearheads the development of products, tools and services that help enterprises scale transformative AI initiatives, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Machine Learning, AI Services (like Speech, Language and Vision), AI Search fueled by RAG, Model Customization, Responsible AI/Content Safety, and live-site internal platforms that provide data, experimentation, and Graphics Processing Units (GPU) cluster management to groups across Microsoft.

March 3, 2021

3 min read

Apply AI to your most critical business needs with new Azure AI capabilities

Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact.
September 22, 2020

3 min read

Build powerful and responsible AI solutions with Azure

As organizations assess safely reopening and continue navigating unexpected shifts in the world, getting insights to respond in an agile and conscientious manner is vital.
July 8, 2020

5 min read

Azure AI: Build mission-critical AI apps with new Cognitive Services capabilities

As the world adjusts to new ways of working and staying connected, we remain committed to providing Azure AI solutions to help organizations invent with purpose.
May 21, 2020

3 min read

Meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow with Azure AI

Our customers are finding innovative ways to deliver crisis management solutions, drive cost-savings, redefine customer engagement, and accelerate decision-making.
May 19, 2020

4 min read

Build AI you can trust with responsible ML

AI deployments are increasingly impacted by the lack of customer trust in the transparency, accountability, and fairness of these solutions.
November 4, 2019

6 min read

Companies of all sizes tackle real business problems with Azure AI

Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible transformation across industries as companies harness the power of AI to transform business processes and drive impact for their customers.
May 2, 2019

7 min read

Making AI real for every developer and every organization

AI is fueling the next wave of transformative innovations that will change the world.
December 4, 2018

3 min read

Azure AI – accelerating the pace of AI adoption for organizations

Building on our announcements at Microsoft Ignite in September 2018, I’m excited to share several new announcements we are making to enable organizations to easily apply AI to transform their businesses.
November 14, 2018

3 min read

Bringing AI to the edge

I believe progress requires that we stay focused in pushing the boundaries of human accomplishment.
September 24, 2018

4 min read

Azure AI – Making AI real for business

AI, data and cloud are bringing in the next wave of transformative innovations across industries.
November 16, 2017

1 min read

Support for open AI ecosystem grows as Amazon Web Services joins ONNX AI format

It’s been an exciting few months! In September we introduced the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format we created with Facebook to increase interoperability and reduce friction for developing and deploying AI.
October 10, 2017

1 min read

Microsoft and Facebook call for open AI ecosystem gaining broader industry momentum

Last month we introduced the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format with Facebook to increase interoperability and reduce friction for developing and deploying AI.