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RSS feedApril 2024
Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024
Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.
February 2024
Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.
November 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November
Target availability: Q4 2023
Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.
October 2023
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for October
Three features now available in GA enable you to streamline your network isolation experience, deploy your model locally prior to production, and automate the ML lifecycle without accruing extra compute hours or requiring manual intervention.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October
Four features now available in Public Preview enable you to customize your compute instance experience by using curated or custom environments, collect all model dependencies in a single operation to generate a package than can be move and deployed across environments, label your images at each pixel level with high quality, and conenct and fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with Azure Machine Learning.
September 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for September
Three new features now available in Public Preview enable you to utilize vision-based models in the model catalog, enjoy seamless integration with LLMOps through the Prompt Flow SDK/CLI and VS Code extensions, and monitor LLM completions for safety and quality metrics.
August 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for August
Two new features now available in PuPr enable you to work with improved data size and model support and generate a default Responsible AI dashboard for the best AutoML model.
July 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July
A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace.
June 2023
Azure Machine Learning - June 2023 PuPr Announcement - View status of jobs in Azure Pipelines
New feature now available in Public Preview enables you to view job statuses without unnecessary compute cost accrual.
Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports gpt-35-turbo at launch.
May 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build
New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM.
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.
April 2023
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.
February 2023
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
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