Artificial Intelligence

Technical articles about Microsoft’s artificial intelligence services. Read about Azure AI topics such as their Bot Framework, Cognitive Services, and Machine Learning. Learn how to use tools such as Java, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, along with open-source frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.

Are You Alive: Enhancing Azure AI Vision Face API with Liveness Detection

We are excited to announce the public preview of Liveness Detection, an addition to the existing Azure AI Face API service. Facial recognition technology has been a longstanding method for verifying a user’s identity in device and online account login for its convenience and efficiency. However, the system encounters escalating challenges as malicious actors persist …

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How to train and publish direct custom model using Azure AI Translator | Custom Translator

Custom Translator has been a key translation enabler capability in Azure AI Translator for almost a decade, with customers across industries such as transportation, healthcare and financial services using it to develop custom translator models. Custom Translator launched the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) back in 2016 and has made it available through the Microsoft Translator Text …

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Introducing new task-optimized summarization capabilities powered by fine-tuned large-language model

For years, developers around the world have relied on pre-built AI capabilities offered through Azure AI Language, ranging from analyzing sentiment, extracting information, mining opinions and much more. Such pre-built capabilities have accelerated AI building efforts for enterprises looking to support users across geographies. Summarization is one such capability, with many customers using it to …

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Unveiling Bilingual Speech Modeling for Seamless Multilingual Conversations

By Jacky Kang, Eric Sun, Jing Pan, Yuhui Wang, Mark Hillebrand, Padma Varadharajan, Fei Zuo We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking feature in our real-time speech modeling—Bilingual Speech Modeling. This innovation is a game-changer, as our speech model now seamlessly supports bilingual language pairs, such as English and Spanish, as well as English and French. Imagine effortlessly …

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Video Retrieval: GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Integrates with Azure to Redefine Video Understanding

Microsoft is thrilled to unveil the Azure AI Vision Video Retrieval preview. This innovative feature revolutionizes video search, enabling the exploration of thousands of hours of video content through advanced multi-modal vector indexing of vision and speech. Further enhancing the Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, Video Retrieval seamlessly integrates, providing customers with the capability …

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Model Benchmarks in Azure AI Studio

Overview Azure AI Studio is a versatile and user-friendly platform designed to cater to the diverse needs of developers, data scientists, and machine learning experts. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services, making the journey from concept to evaluation to deployment seamless and efficient. This all-in-one space allows users to experiment with their …

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Model training and Fine Tuning with serverless compute

We are happy to announce the General Availability of Model Training with Serverless Compute. Serverless compute is a fully-managed, on-demand compute target for a simplified way of running training jobs in Azure Machine Learning. Through serverless compute, machine learning (ML) professionals can focus on their expertise in building ML models, rather than learning about compute infrastructure. …

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Elevate Your LLM Applications to Production via LLMOps

Introduction Today we are announcing the General Availability (GA) of Azure Machine Learning prompt flow, marking the next step in Azure AI empowering engineers and data scientists to build quality generative AI applications. Prompt flow was initially offered as a feature in Azure Machine Learning, and designed to streamline the prompt engineering process. Through our …

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Avail the power of Microsoft Fabric from within Azure Machine Learning

Unveiling the Public Preview of Azure Machine Learning OneLake datastore. Microsoft Fabric, now generally available, is the all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises, offering a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration, all in one place. OneLake is where customers can grow their data gravity by unifying their data across clouds, …

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