{"id":67355,"date":"2023-05-24T18:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/?p=67355"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:18:55","slug":"a-look-at-the-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/technetuk\/2023\/05\/24\/a-look-at-the-announcements-from-microsoft-build-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the announcements from Microsoft Build 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year\u2019s edition of Microsoft Build has now wrapped up, but don\u2019t worry if you missed it! The high-quality sessions and keynotes from across the two days are available to watch on-demand via the Microsoft Build Session Catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event brought us many surprises, so just in case you couldn\u2019t tune in live, let\u2019s walk through some of the key announcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the continual advancements being made in AI, solutions are rapidly changing to meet the needs of users. Microsoft Azure AI Service has several new capabilities to help customers increase productivity, efficiency and content safety for customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updates to Azure OpenAI Service<\/strong>, now in preview, will include enhancements like Azure AI Studio, which will better enable organisations to combine Azure OpenAI Service with their data; a Provisioned Throughput Model, which will offer dedicated\/reserved capacity; and plugins that will simplify integrating external data sources and streamline the process of building and consuming APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure AI Content Safety<\/strong>, a new Azure AI service, will empower businesses to create safer online environments and communities. Models are designed to detect hate, violent, sexual and self-harm content across languages in both images and text. The models assign a severity score to flagged content, indicating to human moderators what content requires urgent attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vector search for Azure Cognitive Search<\/strong>, the retrieval system for new large language models (LLM) apps, is coming soon in preview. Vector search allows developers to easily store, index and search by concept in addition to keywords, using organisational data including text, images, audio, video and graphs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New capabilities, now in preview for Azure Cognitive Service for Language<\/strong>, will include the ability for developers to customise summarisation, in addition to the entity recognition, text classification and conversational language understanding (CLU) features already announced, and are all powered by Azure OpenAI Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Machine Learning<\/strong> drastically improves machine learning professionals\u2019 ability to operationalise responsible generative AI solutions by enabling evaluation at all phases of the model lifecycle. Updates to Azure Machine Learning include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n