Azure Cognitive Services
1.Object Detection update to custom vision (preview) http://aka.ms/cognitive
2.Video Indexer (Paid Preview) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-2018-video-indexer-updates/
3.New OCR model (preview) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/
4.Speech Recognition with customization http://aka.ms/cognitive
5.Speech Synthesis with customizable voice https://cris.ai/Home/CustomVoice
6.QnA Maker (Generally Available) https://blog.botframework.com/2018/05/07/announcing-general-availability-of-qnamaker/
7.Bing Services updates https://blogs.bing.com/Developers-Blog/2018-05/six-new-and-improved-bing-ai-offerings-on-micros...
8. Cognitive Search (public preview) https://www.ailab.microsoft.com/experiments/7d6b0652-51dc-440d-a12a-481f28525143
9. Cognitive Services Labs https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/
Conversational AI
1.Bot Builder SDK v4 (preview) Bot Builder homepage or the Bot Builder GitHub https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-overview?view=azur...
2.Improved Bot Framework Emulator (preview) https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-emulator
3.New Bot Builder Tools https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder-tools
4.Bot Service Features – authentication now available https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/
5.QnA Maker (GA) https://blog.botframework.com/2018/05/07/announcing-general-availability-of-qnamaker/
6.Project Conversation Learner https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/en-us/project-conversation-learner
7. Project Personality Chat https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/en-us/project-personality-chat
Custom AI
1. Azure ML Packages Preview – http://aka.ms/aml-packages
2. Azure ML and Project Brainwave – http://aka.ms/aml-real-time-ai
3. ONNX Model Gallery http://gallery.azure.ai/models
4. ML.NET Preview http://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning
5. Vision AI Developer Kit http://github.com/azure/ai-toolkit-iot-edge https://visionaidevkit.com
Azure for Students
Get Access to Azure and these service is super simple see http://aka.ms/azure4students