Announcing a new OpenAI feature for developers on Azure 

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the launch of OpenAI’s latest model on Azure. This new model, officially named GPT-4o-2024-08-06, brings innovative features designed to elevate developer experiences on Azure. Specifically, the new model focuses on enhancing productivity through Structured Outputs, like JSON Schemas, for the new GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models.  Azure OpenAI Service Build…

New Azure Data Box capabilities to accelerate your offline data migration

By Dustin Ward

Azure Data Box offline data transfer solution allows you send petabytes of data into Azure Storage in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. The secure data transfer is accelerated by hardware transfer devices that enable offline data ingestion to Azure. We’re excited to announce several new service capabilities including: General availability of self-encrypted drives Azure…

Build AI-enabled applications with Azure AI and NVIDIA

By Dustin Ward

Learn how Azure AI, combined with NVIDIA AI, can help you create innovative and intelligent solutions using your preferred tools and workflows. An explosion of interest in generative AI across many industries has sparked, a direct result of the collaboration of Microsoft and NVIDIA and the breakthrough technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As a result, artificial…

Accelerating AI app development with Azure AI and GitHub

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft is empowering developers to become AI developers, bringing Azure AI industry leading models to the global GitHub community of more than 100 million More than 60,000 organizations use Microsoft Azure AI today to explore the power of custom AI applications. However, the market is quickly moving from experimentation to scale, and we see more…

Embrace the future of container native storage with Azure Container Storage

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud. With Kubernetes driving cloud evolution, we are witnessing a transformative shift as enterprises move from virtual machines (VMs) to containers, optimizing for scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. We introduce Azure…

Announcing Phi-3 fine-tuning, new generative AI models, and other Azure AI updates to empower organizations to customize and scale AI applications

By Dustin Ward

AI is transforming every industry and creating new opportunities for innovation and growth. But, developing and deploying AI applications at scale requires a robust and flexible platform that can handle the complex and diverse needs of modern enterprises and allow them to create solutions grounded in their organizational data. That’s why we are excited to…