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Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for March 2022
Label data with text classification using machine learning assist.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for March 2022
New features include multi-class, multi-label, and named entity recognition, search for Azure Machine Learning assets across multiple workspaces, and label with text named entity recognition.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for April 2022
Compartmentalize access to data with identity passthrough and configure email notifications from Azure Learning.
April 2022
Azure Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning preview will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Start using Ray on Azure Machine Learning Library before 30 June 2022.
Generally available: Azure Databricks Delta Live Tables
Build reliable, maintainable, and testable data processing pipelines with Delta Live Tables.
March 2022
General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q1 2022
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life.
Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services
Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning February 2022 announcements
New features now available in public preview include automatic time series ID detection for automation, automatedML model’s training code generation, and move Azure Machine Learning workspaces between subscriptions.
Public preview: Anomaly Detector adds synchronous multivariate detection and improved anomaly interpretation
Start using Anomaly Detector’s multivariate detection synchronously for quicker response, easier operations, and more informative result interpretation to help you analyze root causes.
January 2022
Public preview: Azure Percept DK January (2201) software update is available
The Azure Percept January update includes fixes related to security.
Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement
New features now available in General Availability include add multiple private endpoints for workspaces, and support for storage account IP firewall.
Public preview: Semantic Search update
Semantic Search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search, is now available for direct configuration in the Azure Portal.
December 2021
Public preview: Azure Percept DK November (2111) software update is available
The Azure Percept November update includes fixes related to security.
Azure Machine Learning – December 2021 general availability
A new feature now available in general availability includes Manage Azure Machine Learning resource using Hashicorp Terraform
November 2021
General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates - November 2021
The new feature in general availability for Azure Machine Learning includes deploying with pre-built Inferencing docker images.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates - November 2021
New features now available in public preview for Azure Machine Learning include test AutoML models and calculate test metrics, support for storage account IP firewall, and new pipeline capabilities using CLI v2.
Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities
Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases with Azure OpenAI Service.
Azure Machine Learning - Ignite, November 2021 public preview announcements
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning
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