Make Azure AI Real is Back - Join Microsoft AI Experts for Season 2 with the Reactor!

Microsoft

Oct 09, 2024

Welcome back! We wrapped up Season 1 of Make Azure AI Real in December of last year, with developers joining us from all over the globe to build with Azure AI. Since then, there have been significant advancements in the AI space. At Microsoft Build in May, we made several exciting announcements including:

Azure AI Studio is generally available: providing developers with a user-friendly platform and code-first experience to build and deploy custom copilots and large and small language model-powered applications.
Our new Phi-3-vision model: marking a significant advancement in multimodal AI, this model enables visual reasoning tasks that integrate text and image inputs for improved user interaction.
An inspiring partnership with Khan Academy and Microsoft: announcing Khanmigo for Teachers, an AI-powered teaching assistant aimed at enhancing educational support for K-12 educators.

The potential of AI is truly exciting! More recently, we partnered with GitHub to empower their more than 100 million developers to build AI applications directly from GitHub by bringing Azure AI’s leading model selection to developers through GitHub Models. Lastly, we introduced o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure.

There is no shortage of AI innovation happening at and around Microsoft. To help developers keep up with the rapid pace of these advancements, Make Azure AI Real is back for Season 2. In this season, experts will deep dive into practical use cases to help you accelerate your AI journey. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask LIVE questions for real-time feedback, watch on-demand content, and access technical repositories to continue building safe, secure, and private generative AI applications.

Make Azure AI Real is a YouTube livestream series brought to you by Microsoft Reactor, where we don't just talk AI—we do AI!

Register Now: Microsoft Reactor Events

What to Expect

In this hands-on lab series, you will dive deep into the latest innovations and use cases in Azure AI. Hosted by our very own Cloud Advocate, Korey Stegared-Pace. Korey will sit down with AI experts covering different aspects of building generative AI applications with platforms like Azure AI Studio and GitHub, providing attendees with valuable knowledge and practical skills to enhance AI projects.

Schedule

October 10: Building with Small Language Models (SLMs) - Watch On-Demand
October 17: Working with Agents and Multi-agents using Azure OpenAI - Watch On-Demand
November 7: Deploying AI Solutions with GitHub azure and @workspace Agents - RSVP
November 21: Building with Mistral Model and Azure - RSVP
November 26: Building with Agentic RAG and Cohere - RSVP

December 5: What is GenAIOps and how it can help you build better genAI apps - RSVP
December 13: Finetuning & Customizing your Generative AI Apps - RSVP

Make Azure AI Real limited livestream series will primarily go live on Thursdays at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Be sure to check out the event page for updates as we add or update episodes in the lineup. Events are subjects to change.

What will you get from joining?

Expert-Led Sessions: Learn directly from the experts as they share insights and demonstrate the latest Azure AI innovations.
Innovative Topics: Explore cutting-edge topics such as Phi-3, fine-tuning OpenAI models, working with new models available in our Model catalog, and GenAIOps.
Interactive Demos: Watch live demos and get hands-on experience with Azure AI services and models.
Q&A Opportunities: Have your questions answered by Microsoft experts in real-time.
Connect with other Developers: Build your community with others that are passionate about AI and share your ideas and feedback.
Have Fun: Enjoy learning new skills that can boost your career or your next great idea.
Continue Learning: Take home the Official Collection where you will find resources from the show to continue your AI building journey and watch past episodes on-demand on Microsoft Learn.

Don't want to wait?

Dive into our up-to-date Generative AI for Beginners course on GitHub! This course features 21 hands-on lessons covering Azure AI topics from open source to whether you're just starting out or an advanced developer.

Watch How to Get the Best Out of Make Azure AI Real with Korey and Malena, Azure AI Product Marketing Manager.

How to Register

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from experts and take your AI capabilities to the next level. Register now for our Make Azure AI Real Season 2 YouTube livestreams by visiting the Reactor's event page: Microsoft Reactor Events.

See you there!

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