Machine Learning on Azure

At Microsoft Ignite there were many data announcements. Azure AI is another such area that covers the next wave of innovation aimed at transforming business. There are 3 solution areas. 

Predictive models to optimise business process

These are a set of pretrained models for Azure Cognitive Services and ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) that enables model interoperability across frameworks. Machine Learning is available with Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning and Machine Learning VMs

AI powered apps to integrate vision, speech and language
There are now services specifically designed to help build AI powered apps & agents.

Knowledge mining to uncover insight from documents
There is valuable information hidden in documents, forms, pdfs and images. Azure Cognitive Search (in preview) adds Cognitive Services on top of Azure Search. 

  

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Azure AI – Making AI real for business