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RSS feedNovember 2022
General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
Multivariate Anomaly Detection will allow you to evaluate multiple signals and the correlations between them to find sudden changes in data patterns.
Generally available: Azure Databricks SQL Pro
Beginning in November, Azure Databricks customers have an additional option for SQL compute, with Azure Databricks SQL Pro, which provides enhanced performance and integration features.
October 2022
Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for October 2022/Ignite
Features include functionality to promote pipelines and models across workspaces, perform data wrangling at scale, shorten training times, and lower set-up costs with Azure Container for PyTorch.
Azure Machine Learning—Generally available updates for October 2022/Ignite
Features include controlling/customizing a model’s training code and using Python functions to develop tasks.
Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
New features include the ability to establish event-driven notifications and the capability to label data in text documents using text named-identity recognition.
Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022
Includes the ability to control access to sensitive data, the capability to contrast differences to assess their performance, and the functionality to stop idle compute instances automatically.
August 2022
Generally available: Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog is a unified and fine-grained governance solution for all data assets in your Lakehouse.
Generally available: Hierarchical forecasting for Azure Machine Learning
Hierarchical forecasting, now generally available, offers you the capability to produce consistent forecasts for all levels of your data.
Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for August 2022
New features now available in public preview include AutoML Code Generation enhancements and AutoML in Pipelines.
Generally available: Azure Databricks in West US 3
Azure Databricks, a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform, is now generally available in West US 3.
Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads without waiting for clusters to start up or scale out.
July 2022
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
Target retirement date: July 01, 2023
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.
June 2022
General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022
New features include MLflow enhancements and train and deploy models in Azure hybrid and multi-cloud.
General availability: Azure Databricks available in new regions
Sweden Central and West Central US regions added to Azure Databricks.
General availability: Conversational language understanding
Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS.
May 2022
Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements
Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates
Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates
Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI dashboard and scorecard as well as additional enhancements in preview.
Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2
Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.
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