Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series 

By Dustin Ward

The need for scalable and high-performance infrastructure continues to grow exponentially as the AI landscape advances. Our customers rely on Azure AI infrastructure to develop innovative AI-driven solutions, which is why we are delivering new cloud-based AI-supercomputing clusters built with Azure ND H200 v5 series virtual machines (VMs) today. These VMs are now generally available…

Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o’s multimodal offerings. This milestone further solidifies Azure’s leadership in AI, especially in the realm of speech technology. Azure’s legacy in this space has been long-established…

NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release

By Dustin Ward

Today, NICE DCV has a new name. So long NICE DCV, welcome Amazon DCV. Today, with the 2024.0 release, along with enhancements and bug fixes, NICE DCV is rebranded to Amazon DCV. The new name is now also used to consistently refer to the DCV protocol powering AWS managed services such as Amazon AppStream 2.0…