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RSS feedMay 2023
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build
New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.
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.
Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required.
April 2023
Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service
Continual Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio continuously.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April
New features now available in GA include the ability to customize your compute instance and configure a compute instance to automatically stop if it is inactive.
March 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for March 2023
New features now available in GA include the ability to visualize timeseries models, and create a Compute Instance on behalf of another user.
Azure Machine Learning – March 2023 Region Expansion Announcement
Azure Machine Learning is now Generally Available in the UK West region.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview updates for March 2023
New feature now available in Public Preview includes the ability to receive troubleshooting documentation on failed environment builds and shorten the training phase of large-scale distributed PyTorch models.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains
Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available
February 2023
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework
Build conversational AI experiences with Azure Communication Services. Use virtual chat agents to manage growing customer service needs and provide in-chat intelligence with the help of smart assistants.
General availability: Azure Private Link support for Azure Databricks
Azure Private Link for Azure Databricks
Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3
Azure Databricks is now generally available in China North 3.
January 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public preview announcements for January 2023
New features now available in Public Preview include the ability to build an end-to-end training pipeline with no-code, recover a deleted workspace, and identify root causes of pipeline failure.
Private Preview: Featured Clothing
This insight provides information on key items worn by individuals within a video and the timestamp in which the clothing appears.
November 2022
Generally available: Additional Always Free Services for Azure Free Account and PAYG
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022
New GA features include the ability to automate auto-shutdown/auto-start schedules, configure and customize a compute instance, seamlessly build NLP/vision models, and assess AI systems.
Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
New public preview features include reading Delta Lakes in fewer steps, debugging and monitoring training jobs, and performing data wrangling.
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