New Azure AI updates to help develop AI solutions quickly, with greater choice & flexibility

Microsoft recently announced several updates to help developers quickly create AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility while leveraging the Azure AI toolchain. If you are building solutions for the Microsoft commercial marketplace, check out these relevant updates below.

 

• Improvements to the Phi family of models, including a new Mixture of Experts (MoE) model and 20+ languages.

• AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large and Jamba 1.5 on Azure AI models as a service.

• Integrated vectorization in Azure AI Search to create a streamlined retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline with integrated data prep and embedding.

• Custom generative extraction models in Azure AI Document Intelligence, so you can now extract custom fields for unstructured documents with high accuracy.

• The general availability of Text to Speech (TTS) Avatar, a capability of Azure AI Speech service, which brings natural-sounding voices and photorealistic avatars to life, across diverse languages and voices, enhancing customer engagement and overall experience. 

• The general availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning.

• The general availability of Conversational PII Detection Service in Azure AI Language.

 

Learn more about these updates here: Boost your AI with Azure's new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models | Microsoft Azure Blog