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- I was, 25 years ago, an accomplished C/C++ Windows SDK developer, after which I was a MSFT Technology Evangelist and pre-sales engineer. Now I want to get back into it and build a Large Language Model (I think) application that will summarize complex documents in a specific knowledge domain. Maybe I’ll build a business around this. After Microsoft Ignite and a couple of weeks of trying I am LOST as to WHERE to get STARTED. There are SOoooo many options - AI studio, CoPilot Studio, OpenAI Service, etc. Help! - Also I am thinking to program in Python. Any comment on Python as my choice?
- Eric_Johnson1280
Microsoft
Hello Stawsh. For building a new LLM based application AI Studio is a great place to get started. You can create a new project and play with any of our models such as GPT-4 in our playground. From there, you can upload your own data and gain experience with prompt crafting. Python is a great language for AI! - I am in the same boat.... I miss the days of being able to get all of the good WROX books to help guide us on development. It's so hard to figure out where to start now.
- CourtneyBrewerHello, Stawsh. Let me help describe Copilot Studio and Azure AI Studio. Copilot Studio allows you to create your own copilots or extend and customize Microsoft Copilot via an end-to-end SaaS studio. The infrastructure is managed for you, no service need to be spun up, including built-in generative AI features, responsible AI checks, analytics dashboards, LLM orchestrator, and IT admin center built in. Design copilots that assist with knowledge discovery over your data and task completion via automation. For a comprehensive developer experience, Azure AI Studio offers a fully managed AI platform including the ability to customize apps with the latest models from Azure OpenAI Service and open models, ground models using enterprise data, orchestrate apps with prompt flow, as well as fine-tune models, and evaluate apps with enterprise-grade security, safety, privacy, and compliance. The good news is that they can be used together! Does this help?
- Do I need to be an "Enterprise" to use Copilot Studio or Azure AI Studio? On some path a few days ago, I remember getting blocked on that point ... couldn't log in with a "private account". At this time, I am just one of two "enterprising individuals" investigating this idea and wanting to prototype.
- Hey All. Firstly I want to say that this new Azure AI studio experience is a really great start to consolidating the expansive offerings into a single platform. Having used different variations and flavors in the Azure AI space over the past few years this is finally starting to feel like a choesive platform and experience. A few of questions 1. Are there plans to bring the 'deploy to a Copilot (former PVA)' option to the Azure AI studio and not just in the Azure Open AI Studio? 2. When using that option above (deploy to bot), my expereince has been that the deployment will not respond to any inquiry outside the content it was grounded in, even with the 'Limit responses to your data content' box left unchecked. Is this the intended design or might i be doing something wrong? 3. What are the options or best practices for grounding a custom model (or copilot) with data from multiple sources (for instance - fabric lakehouse, files in blob/sharepoint, websites, and external data sources)?
- gia_mondragon
- Yes
- With our “on your data” features you should be able to elect when to query specifically from your data. Read for more information on how to turn this on/off.
- If you have multiple sources other than Microsoft 365 only (for example SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, etc.) in which case your best choice is to ground the data using Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365, then you can use Azure AI Search to ground the data from multiple sources. There are built-in pull connectors to automatically have your data indexed: Data sources gallery - Azure AI Search | Microsoft Learn and for any that is not directly supported to pull the data, you can create your own indexing pipelines and use the Push API/SDKs (Data import and data ingestion - Azure AI Search | Microsoft Learn) to get any data in an Azure AI Search index and use it to ground your data.
- I'm very new to Azure AI studio.... extremely new.... I've got a lot of address data that I need to analyze to predict timing of events occurring.... how can I utilize Azure AI studio to figure out which attributes of a parent "case" are "significant" to the data? I'm not sure I'm asking this right.... we have "Cases"... each of those cases has several addresses associated with it. For each case, we are trying to determine which address an event will occur at and when. We have the historical data associated with older cases going back about 2 years.... Where would I even begin?
- amar_badalHi Clifford Tillman, where is your data? What data source?
- amar, All of the data is in an Azure SQL Server database... After reading Mallory's reply below.... I think I need to dive into the Azure Machine Learning side of things.
- mmonsmaThanks for joining! The use case you describe sounds like a machine learning challenge – you want to make predictions based on historical data. Have you explored Azure Machine Learning at all? AutoML (automated ML) can help new users get started more easily. Let me know if this looks relevant/helpful for you: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-auto-train-forecast
- Mallory, Thank you very much for your assistance. This is definitely more of what I'm after. I've done VERY little exploration into Azure Machine Learning. I think I just need to start at the overview for AML and go from there.
- A client has invested in M365 Copilot, and has quite complex requirements in terms of sourcing LOB content from numerous sources (databases, SharePoint documents, lists, and online sources) - assuming they used Azure AI Studio to achieve that - how would they be able to integrate that capability within their M365 Copilot tenancy for a seamless experience - or would it end up needing to be completely separate from their M365 Copilot experience?
- amar_badalAt the surface, using Microsoft Fabric would be the way to go on integration from various sources. We from Azure Studio already integrate with Fabric Lakehouse with other integrations coming soon. We can connect with you to understand your requirements more to provide proper recommendation.
- That would be appreciated, thanks
- My Name is Clifford Tillman with Loss Prevention Services. I'm interested in utilizing Azure AI to do a few different things. I'm located in Mobile, Alabama, USA
- katelynrothneyHi Clifford! Fantastic. We encourage you to get started with Azure AI through AI Studio. Get started https://ai.azure.com/ ! Can access our OpenAI models, as well as our speech, search, vision, safety capabilities and more!
- Thank you for the reply Katelyn. We're less interested in generative interactions and more interested on the predictive side of things. I'm not sure the get started is what I'm looking for.
- gia_mondragonHello community! My name is Gia Mondragon and I'm a Program Manager with Azure AI Search. I'm logging in from Costa Rica. Happy to help out with any related questions to our product and integrations with it accordingly. Thank you.
- deeikeleHello community! My name is Dennis Eikelenboom, I’m a product manager at Azure AI responsible for the setup and management experience in AI Studio including enterprise readiness capabilities. Looking forward to learn from you
- amar_badalHello, I'am Amar Badal, part of the Azure AI team focusing the data area, which includes efficiently bringing in data for training, fine tuning and grounding purposes.
Welcome to the Azure AI Studio Ask Microsoft Anything!
Please check out our brand-new blog published at 9AM PT today, showcasing how Azure AI Studio is continuing to advance state-of-the-art model and tooling support: https://aka.ms/DecMoment
This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the Azure AI Studio team.
Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread.To start, introduce yourself below and tell us where you're logging in from!
- monalisawhalin
Hello Tech Community. I'm Mona Whalin, Principal Product Manager with Azure OpenAI Service. I look forward to answering your questions!
- Brian Weatherill, VP of technology for a small software company based in Lakeland Florida
- So.... there's no presentation along with the text-based Q&A?
- No, it's all text-based, but we do have a brand new blog that just got posted: https://aka.ms/DecMoment
Also participating from Microsoft: monalisawhalin allisonsparrow CourtneyBrewer paulshealy
- Great chance to get update and align with PG～
- katelynrothneyThank you for joining!
