At Microsoft's Build developer conference on Tuesday, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Redmond's AI Studio is moving to general availability.
"With Azure AI Studio, we provide an end-to-end tooling solution to develop and safeguard the copilot apps you build," he said during the opening keynote presentation."It's an end-to-end development environment to build, train and fine-tune AI models and do so responsibly."in Azure Studio and as an API. The"o" in the model's name means"omni," a reference to its ability to accept different types of input and to respond in any of those modes.
Nadella also said that Microsoft is adding the ability to make custom models in Azure AI."We recognize that there are advanced applications where you need much more customization of these models for very specific use cases," he explained., Nabila Babar, principal program manager for Microsoft's AI platform, said that AI Studio makes it easier to set up and manage AI services, and to oversee safety and quality.
"The platform includes Azure AI services like Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Search and familiar tooling from Azure Machine Learning, likefor guided experiences for quick prototyping," said Babar."It supports code-first SDKs and CLIs, integrated with the Azure Developer CLI and AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code to provide the needed scalability as demand grows."
Azure AI Studio offers more than 1,600 models in its model catalog, from vendors like Meta, Mistral, Microsoft, and OpenAI.Intel, AMD take a back seat as Qualcomm takes center stage in Microsoft's AI PC push, for creating and hosting models, that allows developers to connect Visual Studio Code to their Space and edit code directly, either locally or in the browser.