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Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor.

With Azure, you can trust that you are on a secure and well-managed foundation to utilize the latest advancements in AI and cloud-native services. Azure is adaptive and purpose-built for all your workloads, helping you seamlessly unify and manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions.  The post Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure in the era of AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The past year has been one of true transformation. Companies are seeing real benefits today and are eager to explore what’s next—including how they can do more with their data investments, build intelligent applications, and uncover what AI can do for their business. The post Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. The post Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2023 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Working together to create open-source and private datasets for AI training.

With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, organizations can leverage high-quality datasets for digital agriculture solutions, allowing customers and partners to focus on product innovation rather than data management. The post Evolving Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture to transform data into intuitive insights appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Customers need reliable and performant infrastructure to bring the most sophisticated AI use cases to market in record time. Our objective is to build state-of-the-art infrastructure and meet these demands. The latest MLPerf™ 3.1 Training results1 are a testament to our unwavering commitment to building high-quality and high-performance systems in the cloud to achieve unparalleled efficiency in training LLMs at scale. The post Azure sets a scale record in large language model training appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

With these announcements from OpenAI DevDay, developers and enterprises are now poised to explore new horizons, empowered by the combined strengths of Microsoft and OpenAI, and the limitless possibilities of generative AI. The post Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, efficient financial management is the linchpin that keeps organizations agile and cost-effective. In support of that, we are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has achieved a milestone that reaffirms our commitment to empowering our customers and partners in their journey towards optimized cloud spending. We are now a FinOps Certified Service Provider. The post Microsoft is now a FinOps Certified Service Provider appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.