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Empowering operators through generative AI technologies with Azure for Operators

OpenAI’s offerings—ChatGPT, Codex, Sora, and DALL-E—have caught the public’s imagination and opened doors to many opportunities for infusing AI into networks, systems, services, and applications. These cutting-edge AI technologies are now deeply integrated with Microsoft products including Bing, Windows, Office, and Microsoft Teams. Within Azure for Operators, we are taking advantage of the significant investments […]

Advancing memory leak detection with AVOps—introducing RESIN

“Operating a cloud infrastructure at global scale is a large and complex task, particularly when it comes to service standard and quality. In a previous blog, we shared how AIOps was leveraged to improve service quality, engineering efficiency, and customer experience. In this blog, I’ve asked Jian Zhang, Principal Program Manager from the AIOps Platform […]

Get ready for AI at the Migrate to Innovate digital event

Organizations of all sizes are recognizing that using AI fuels the kind of innovation that’s needed to maintain a competitive edge. What’s often less clear is how to prepare your organization to be able to take full advantage of AI. For organizations running business-critical workloads on Windows Servers and SQL Server, how do you get […]

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Helping you navigate the fast pace of change

I’ve met with customers and partners from around the world over the past few months and almost every one of them mentioned the same thing: how fast AI innovation is happening—much faster than the pace of change many are used to. While most see the transformative potential AI poses for their organization, many feel the […]

Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications

Today we are announcing significant changes to Azure AI Search in support for customers building production ready generative AI applications. Azure AI Search has drastically increased storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, so customers can run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at any scale, without having to compromise cost or performance.  In […]

Google announces live image feature for Imagen 2.0 to enhance Vertex AI

At the Google Cloud Next event, the search giant announced lots of updates and new features for platforms to enhance Vertex AI. And of all the exciting details that came out from the event, one of the noteworthy announcements was updates to Imagen 2.0, Google’s image generation models. Google has announced that Imagen 2.0 models […]

Visual Studio now combines Copilot and Copilot Chat into one package

Developers using Visual Studio can now have a more unified GitHub Copilot experience with Preview 3 of version 17.10. This update merges the functionalities that were previously offered by separate Copilot and Copilot Chat extensions into a single package. The best thing is that users no longer need to install and manage two separate extensions.  […]

Microsoft Fixes 149 Flaws in Huge April Patch Release, Zero-Days Included

Microsoft has released security updates for the month of April 2024 to remediate a record 149 flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 149 flaws, three are rated Critical, 142 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The update is aside from 21 […]

After AI and cloud investments in 3 European giants, Microsoft moves towards Japan

In the last few months, we’ve seen multiple announcements by Microsoft that it is investing in AI structures in countries. Japan is the latest addition to the list, which already contains countries like Germany, the UK, and Spain.  Microsoft announced a $2.9 billion investment to improve Japan’s AI and cloud computing infrastructure over the next […]

GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available in the API

OpenAI has revealed the next generation of its language model with the release of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision through its API. This upgraded version has improved features like JSON mode and function calling for visual data processing. The model also promises a performance boost and is slated to integrate with the popular ChatGPT. What’s GPT-4 Turbo? GPT-4 Turbo is a multimodal powerhouse capable […]