Latest Marvels: Azure AI Data & Digital Apps Advancements

Azure AI Data, AI, and Digital Apps updates: Modernize data, build smart apps, and use AI Generational AI models and tools have improved application and business process experiences for years, but this year was a turning point

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A new technology has never caused such rapid change It shows how many organizations were AI-ready and how cloud, data, DevOps, and transformation cultures prepared them

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New models and multimodal capabilities in Azure AI They offer the most advanced open and frontier models so developers can build confidently and unlock immediate value across their organization

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They added Models as a Service to Azure OpenAI Service last month Azure AI applications can use model providers’ latest open and frontier LLMs

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GPT-4 prompting dazzles! Microsoft Research recently blogged about promptbase, a reasoning-based GPT-4 prompt. Other AI models lag behind GPT-4 in various test sets, including those used to benchmark

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One of her strategic partners, Databricks offers Azure’s fastest-growing data services Azure Databricks’ interoperability with Microsoft Fabric and use of Azure OpenAI to improve customer AI experiences were recently demonstrated

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These powerful new capabilities and pgvector support make Azure Database for PostgreSQL another great place to build AI-powered apps

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Customers can optimize database performance and gain critical SQL Server estate insights with SQL Server monitoring

The new Azure SQL Database price Hyperscale gives cloud-native workloads Azure SQL performance and security at commercial open-source database prices

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Personalized employee apps and customer chatbots are examples of digital applications developed and deployed by companies using AI to improve operations and experiences Updates like these enable innovation

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The Volkswagen Group’s software subsidiary CARIAD created the CARIAD Service Platform with Microsoft using Azure and AKS to provide automotive applications to Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, Seat, and Skoda as the industry moved to software-defined vehicles

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Performance and efficiency of Azure Cobalt for intelligent apps For more details visit govindhtech.com

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