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Category: AI + Machine Learning • 11 min read

From code to production: New ways Azure helps you build transformational AI experiences

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Applications, Product Marketing

What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!

5 min read

Unleashing innovation: The new era of compute powering Azure AI solutions

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

5 min read

New models added to the Phi-3 family, available on Microsoft Azure

By Misha Bilenko Corporate Vice President, Microsoft GenAI

Analytics, Announcements, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor, Compute, Containers

Published June 5, 2024 • 4 min read

Announcing Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters

By Deepak Bansal Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, and Chandan Aggarwal Partner Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce a new offering called Advanced Container Networking Services. It’s a suite of services built on top of existing networking solutions for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to address complex challenges around observability, security, and compliance.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI Content Safety, Azure AI Studio, Azure OpenAI Service, Partners

Published May 13, 2024 • 2 min read

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure

By Eric Boyd Corporate Vice President, Azure AI Platform, Microsoft

Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model on Azure AI. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Migrate, Azure Web PubSub, Compute, Industry trends

Published May 6, 2024 • 5 min read

Harnessing the power of intelligent apps through modernization

By Mike Hulme GM, Azure Digital Applications Marketing

81% of organizations believe AI will give them a competitive edge. Applications are where AI comes to life. Intelligent applications, powered by AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms are pivotal to enhancing performance and stimulating growth. Thus, innovating with intelligent apps is crucial for businesses looking to gain competitive advantage and accelerate growth in this era of AI.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI, Azure AI Search, Azure App Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, Azure Health Data Services, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Managed Applications, Azure SQL Database, Customer stories, DevOps, Events, Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Copilot for Azure, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Migration, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published May 2, 2024 • 11 min read

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Harness the power of intelligent apps

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Applications, Product Marketing

Sharing insights on technology transformation along with important updates and resources about the data, AI, and digital application solutions that make Microsoft Azure the platform for the era of AI.

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Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, Internet of Things

Published April 2, 2019 • 2 min read

Updates to geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge

By Microsoft Azure

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease.

Azure Data Box, Hybrid + Multicloud

Published April 1, 2019 • 16 min read

Azure.Source – Volume 76

By Rob Caron Director, Executive Communications

Enabling customers’ hybrid strategy with new Microsoft innovation; Hannover Messe 2019: Azure IoT Platform updates power new, highly-secured Industrial IoT Scenarios; Announcing Azure Stack HCI: A new member of the Azure Stack family; and much more.

Azure Blob Storage, Compute, Partners, Virtual Machines

Published April 1, 2019 • 2 min read

Enabling precision medicine with integrated genomic and clinical data

By David Houlding Director, Global Healthcare Business Strategy

Precision medicine tailors a patient’s medical treatment by factoring in their genetic makeup and clinical data.

AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Best practices

Published April 1, 2019 • 3 min read

Step up your machine learning process with Azure Machine Learning service

By Sarah Bird Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI, Microsoft

Everyone’s talking about machine learning (ML). Business decision makers are finding ways to deploy machine learning in their organizations. Data scientists are keeping up with all the advancements, tools, and frameworks available.

AI + Machine Learning, Azure AI Video Indexer

Published March 29, 2019 • 3 min read

People recognition enhancements – Video Indexer

By Moria Rais Azure Media Services, Video Indexer

Want to train Video Indexer to recognize people relevant specifically to your account? We have great news for you!

AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure Cognitive Search

Published March 29, 2019 • 3 min read

Azure Search – New Storage Optimized service tiers available in preview

By Mike Carter Principal Program Manager, Azure Search

Azure Search is an AI-powered cloud search service for modern mobile and web app development. Azure Search is the only cloud search service with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that enrich all types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale.

AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Partners

Published March 28, 2019 • 4 min read

Umanis lifts the hood on their AI implementation methodology

By Microsoft Azure

Microsoft creates deep, technical content to help developers enhance their proficiency when building solutions using the Azure AI Platform.

Announcements, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databases

Published March 28, 2019 • 3 min read

Announcing the public preview of Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

By Microsoft Azure

Today we’re announcing the public preview of Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an additional capability for managing security for sensitive data.

Azure Service Health, How to, Management and Governance

Published March 28, 2019 • 1 min read

Get an official service issue root cause analysis with Azure Service Health

By Microsoft Azure

After you experience a Microsoft Azure service issue, you likely need to explain what happened to your customers, management, and other stakeholders. That’s why Azure Service Health provides official incident reports and root cause analyses (RCAs) from Microsoft.

Announcements, Azure Sphere, Digital Twins, Internet of Things

Published March 28, 2019 • 5 min read

Hannover Messe 2019: Azure IoT Platform updates power new, highly-secured Industrial IoT Scenarios

By Sam George Corporate Vice President, Azure IoT

We’re proud to be showcasing at Hannover Messe once again next week. Manufacturing continues to be one of the leading industries adopting IoT for a growing set of scenarios to improve safety, efficiency, and reliability for people and devices.