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Hugo Affaticati

Technical Program Manager 2, Microsoft
Hugo Affaticati is a Technical Program Manager 2 on the AI Benchmarking team at Microsoft Azure. With extensive expertise in the field of AI, he specializes in ensuring performance for large language models, as well as deep learning and machine learning training and inferencing, utilizing Microsoft’s cutting-edge technologies.

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AI + Machine Learning, Azure AI, Industry trends, Virtual Machines

Published • 4 min read

Microsoft Azure delivers game-changing performance for generative AI Inference 

By Technical Program Manager 2, Microsoft, and Corporate Vice President, Azure Dedicated

Microsoft Azure has delivered industry-leading results for AI inference workloads amongst cloud service providers in the most recent MLPerf Inference results published publicly by MLcommons. The Azure results were achieved using the new NC H100 v5 Virtual Machines (VMs) and reinforced the commitment from Azure to designing AI infrastructure that is optimized for training and inferencing in the cloud.

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AI + Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, Compute, Partners, Thought leadership

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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