Discover the latest innovations at Azure Open Source Day 2023

By Dustin Ward

This post has been coauthored by Nikisha Reyes-Grange and Katie Fritsch. “Tech companies born with an open-source mentality get it. It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable, and ultimately achievable; we must learn to build on the ideas of others.”—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. Microsoft has always been a developer-first organization, and…

Exploring open-source capabilities in Azure AI

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Richard Tso, Director of Product Marketing, Azure AI Open-source technologies have had a profound impact on the world of AI and machine learning, enabling developers, data scientists, and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and build better AI solutions. As large AI models like GPT-3.5 and DALL-E become more prevalent, organizations are…

Announcing a renaissance in computer vision AI with Microsoft’s Florence foundation model

By Dustin Ward

Extract robust insights from image and video content with Azure Cognitive Service for Vision We are pleased to announce the public preview of Microsoft’s Florence foundation model, trained with billions of text-image pairs and integrated as cost-effective, production-ready computer vision services in Azure Cognitive Service for Vision. The improved Vision Services enables developers to create cutting-edge,…