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Azure AI Foundry and AOAI (Azure OpenAI Services) keeps on getting better all the time! The latest addition in Azure AI Foundry (as of April 14, 2025, yesterday) is the GPT-4.1 model, that has a generous 1M context window and cutoff day for June 2024! 1 million tokens understanding "memory", which translates to roughly 1500 … Continue reading GPT-4.1 is now available at Azure AI Foundry
The ability to generate a realistic video of a person speaking any text might still sound like science fiction, but it’s reality with Azure AI’s text-to-speech (TTS) avatars. This technology creates photorealistic digital humans that can speak with natural voices in multiple languages. In this article, I’ll dive into what Azure’s AI TTS avatars are, … Continue reading Photorealistic Azure Avatars for the Enterprise
AI technology and Azure AI continue to evolve rapidly, bringing innovations and options that can be applied to business operations. Two recent announcements in the Azure AI Foundry —Microsoft's Responses API and the Computer-Using Agent (CUA)—are set to enable Agentic AI to help with workflows, boost productivity, and eventually reshape business processes, workflows and even … Continue reading Understanding the Business Potential of Computer-Using Agents and Responses API
Microsoft just released the information that GPT-4.5 preview model is available for deployment at Azure AI Foundry! Not everyone can yet use this, but it requires a registration before it can be used. I, of course, placed in my application for the model but at this point I am still waiting for the registration result. … Continue reading GPT-4.5 preview is available in Azure AI Foundry
AI agents are becoming a key enabler for businesses looking to streamline processes, automate repetitive tasks, and empower their employees to work more efficiently. In Microsoft 365 Copilot, we’ve already seen a lot of solutions that focus on improving productivity for individuals. Yet, the potential for AI-driven automation goes much further when you can connect … Continue reading Azure AI Agents are in the Public Preview
DeepSeek R1 has been everyone's radar recently. Last night I heard Microsoft released it in the Azure AI Foundry. Today, I've been testing it—deploying it, trying some prompts with it, and noticing just how heavily it filters certain topics. This was not a surprise by any means. With the official announcement that DeepSeek R1 is … Continue reading Getting started with DeepSeek R1 at Azure AI Foundry
Transforming Modern Work with AI and Copilot As Microsoft Ignite 2024 kicks off with its keynote, there is a lot of anticipation and excitement in the air. This year's event is going to be an evolution of modern work, bringing together innovations and pivotal updates that will redefine how organizations and employees harness the power … Continue reading Unleashing the Future of Work: Microsoft Ignite 2024 Announcements on Copilot, Agents, Teams, and AI
Or should I say Team x AI x Copilot Studio. Just recently I presented this topic at CollabDays Poland @ Microsoft Warsaw. This is the same topic I have already given a few times, but this session is always different since Azure OpenAI Studio and Copilot Studio are evolving at a very rapid pace! When … Continue reading Supercharging Teams with AI
Let’s explore the Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model and how it can be used to describe image contents. The GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model is a large multimodal model (LMM) developed by OpenAI that can analyze images and provide textual responses to questions about them. It incorporates both natural language processing and visual … Continue reading How to use Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision to describe images
Microsoft is constantly evolving and improving its AI services, and the Azure OpenAI is probably one of the fastest services to evolve. There is now support for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL-E3, enhanced content filtering and it keeps on improving. Azure OpenAI Functions is something that various AI apps are utilizing – and no wonder, … Continue reading Updates to Azure OpenAI Functions in the latest API
Have you ever wished to have a virtual assistant or a chatbot that can interact with your customers or audience in a more engaging and human-like way? Microsoft launched its Azure AI Speech text-to-speech avatar creator at the Microsoft Ignite 2023 last week. This capability, currently available for public preview, allows users to create photorealistic … Continue reading Photorealistic talking avatars with Azure AI Speech
Boom! Here it is: Microsoft Ignite 2023 news! As before I have collected to my blog post the most interesting new features Microsoft has released or announced. No, we did not get away from this Ignite either without a name/brand change. There are a few of them, as well as aggregating apps to a unified … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2023
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