New updates from Azure AI | November 2024

Last week, Microsoft announced new capabilities across the Azure AI portfolio that provide greater choice and flexibility to build and scale AI solutions. 

Key updates include:

• Availability of Azure OpenAI Data Zones for the United States and EU that offer greater flexibility in deployment options.
• 99% SLA on token generation, general availability of Azure OpenAI Service Batch API, availability of Prompt Caching, 50% reduction in price for models through Provisioned Global, and lower deployment minimums on Provisioned Global GPT-4o models to scale efficiently and to optimize costs.
• New models including Healthcare industry models, Ministral 3B small model from Mistral and Cohere Embed 3, and fine-tuning general availability for Phi 3.5 family providing greater choice and customization.
• Upgrade from GitHub Models to Azure AI model inference API and availability of AI App templates to accelerate AI development.
• New enterprise ready features to build with AI safely.

 

Which of these new capabilities are you most excited about leveraging for app building on the marketplace? Let us know in the comments!

 

And check out the full blog here to learn more about these new capabilities: Announcing the availability of Azure OpenAI Data Zones and latest updates from Azure AI | Microsoft Azure Blog