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February 2024

Feb 1

Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

November 2023

Nov 15

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

NOW AVAILABLE

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.  

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 16

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for October

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features
Oct 16

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October

IN PREVIEW

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. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 14

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for September

IN PREVIEW

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​. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

August 2023

Aug 16

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for August

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

July 2023

Jul 19

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Features
Jul 19

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July

NOW AVAILABLE

A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

June 2023

Jun 13

Azure Machine Learning - June 2023 PuPr Announcement - View status of jobs in Azure Pipelines

IN PREVIEW

New feature now available in Public Preview enables you to view job statuses without unnecessary compute cost accrual.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Jun 12

Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports gpt-35-turbo at launch.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Regions & Datacenters

May 2023

May 23

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build

IN PREVIEW

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
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 12

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 16

Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features
Mar 15

Azure Machine Learning – March 2023 Region Expansion Announcement 

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Machine Learning is now Generally Available in the UK West region.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Regions & Datacenters
Mar 15

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview updates for March 2023

IN PREVIEW

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. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 22

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

IN PREVIEW

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings

January 2023

Jan 18

Azure Machine Learning - Public preview announcements for January 2023

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 9

Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features

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