Azure-updates

Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.

• Azure OpenAI Service
• Azure AI Vision
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

• Services
• Retirements

Long Audio API will be retired on 31 March 2027 – Migrate to the new batch synthesis API

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2027

Long Audio API will be retired on March 31, 2027

• Features

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q4 2023

Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Database voor PostgreSQL
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023

Streefdatum afschaffing: november 03, 2023

Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023

• Bing Speech
• Retirements

AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026

AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026

• Azure AI Personalizer
• Features
• Retirements

Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2026

Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we'll retire version 3.0 of the API on 31 March 2026.

• Azure AI Spraak
• SDK and Tools

Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2023

Introducing Azure OpenAI Service on your data in public preview, which unlocks the power of OpenAI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 with your own data. It streamlines communication, enhances customer service, boosts productivity without training, provides access to specific data sources for accurate insights, and enables seamless data connectivity, web app deployment, and transformative conversational AI experiences.

• Azure OpenAI Service
• SDK and Tools
• Services
• Features

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2023

Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.

• Features