This still remains one of the most informative summaries I've ever seen on LinkedIn in a long time. Every paragraph Satya writes in this post is loaded with a "holy smokes" announcement.
If you missed Satya's Keynote at Microsoft Ignite 2023, this is kinda like the highlights.
"The Age of Copilots" - Satya Nadella
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/age-copilots-satya-nadella-2hllc
Learn how Microsoft Copilot for Azure combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with the Azure control plane & services to generate bring a new level of productivity to generate insights, discover new functionality & simplify operations across your entire Azure portfolio.
"Simplifying cloud operations with Microsoft Copilot for Azure" - Microsoft Ignite 2023
https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/92a2ace4-0fe1-4583-a96e-728f3f100e24?source=/home
Forgot to mention the most recent news from Microsoft Ignite 2023 including details about the storage "Microsoft 365 Backup" uses & how this integrates with existing backup solutions like Rubrik, Commvault & Veaam.
✅ Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage at Ignite 2023
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-365-backup-and-microsoft-365-backup-storage-at-ignite/ba-p/3981049
Take a look 👀 at this effective summary on #ignite2023
Did you know #SharePoint Premium is coming? This is one of the announcements made by #Microsoft last week during the #ignite2023
Do you think Microsoft #Syntex is being replaced by #SharePoint Premium features? Share your thoughts here or join the discussion in my #Substack, https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/815bd962-672f-40c9-9297-b6070e42f467
Catch up on everything announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023 with the Book of News! https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/
#Microsoft #Ignite2023
Esri and Microsoft are reshaping how everyone works with #data.
Reveal unexplored patterns and trends with spatial analytics in Microsoft Fabric. https://www.esri.com/en-us/c/product/spatial-analytics-in-microsoft-fabric
Yesterday, Microsoft introduced "Copilot Studio" at Microsoft Ignite 2023.
Copilot Studio simplifies the process of creating, testing & deploying copilots tailored to your unique requirements. Leverage data from more than 1000+ prebuilt connectors to seamlessly integrate your cloud or on-premises information into your conversations. Take a look at the video below!
For more information, visit:
https://microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio?trk=public_post_comment-text
Microsoft Ignite 2023 Keynote. Can't wait until we move back to a LARGER venue than the Seattle Convention Center!
I was skeptical of Microsoft being able to really call themselves an AI centered company. After watching the 100 different announcements at #ignite, I'm seeing the vision of an AI GPT+diffusion assisted enterprise development and cloud operations platform.
#ignite23 #ignite2023
Microsoft-Tool für KI-Avatare: Gefahr von Missbrauch für Deepfakes? #Microsoft #Ignite23 #Ignite2023 #Deepfake #TextToSpeech #KI #Avatar #AzureAI #Azure https://winfuture.de/news,139609.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
✅ Announcing "Models as a Service" in Azure
- Ready to use APIs
- Hosted Fine-tuning
- Integrated with leading LLM tools
(aka.ms/modelsasaservice)
✅ "Llama 2-as-a-Service". Partnering with Meta to deliver AI services through APIs exclusively to Azure users. All backend configuration is abstracted, pre-built & managed with no GPU resource allocation necessary.
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
Microsoft 💙 Open Source.
Microsoft wants to bring in the best selection of open source AI models to Azure responsibly.
Today's Azure AI model catalog has the largest selection of models of any cloud & we are adding more, including:
☑️ Stable diffusion (Image generator)
☑️ Code Llama (Code generation)
☑️ Mistral 7B (Translate/summarize text)
☑️ Nvidia Nemotron 3.8B (General AI app dev)
(aka.ms/openmodels)
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
Microsoft 💙 OpenAI.
As OpenAI innovates, Microsoft will deliver that innovation as part of Azure OpenAI so Azure customers will benefit & have access to private AI services.
This includes:
✅ GPT-4 Turbo (Lower pricing, extended prompts w/ 300pgs of text in a single prompt, coming this week in preview)
✅ GPT-4 Turbo with Vision (Prompt with video clips)
✅ DALL-E 3
✅ Fine-tuning
(aka.ms/azureopenaiservice)
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
This "Silicon diversity" across Nvidia, AMD & Microsoft own accelerators provides the best, most optimized #AI platform for:
✅ Microsoft Copilot
✅ Your AI applications
...supported by #Azure AI.
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
✅ Introducing Azure Maia 100 - the Microsoft Cloud AI Accelerator optimized for LLM training & inference.
Manufactured with 5nm process, Maia has 105B transistors & is one of the largest chips manufactured with today's technology.
Special chip design to align w/ self-contained architecture for water cooling in today's existing racks without rebuilding any elements of the datacenter.
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
✅ Azure introducing Nvidia ND H200 v5 Tensor Core GPUs for larger AI models & faster inferences (aka.ms/nvidiah200)
✅ Azure NCCv5 Confidential VMs using Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs (aka.ms/accblog) for highly sensitive end-to-end data protection
✅ AMD MI300X accelerates Azure VMs for large gen AI workloads (aka.ms/amdmi300x) 192GB of HS mem + 5.2TB/sec of bandwidth delivers the fastest memory speed/capacity
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
✅ Microsoft Azure's 'Eagle' Supercomputer ranked as the 3rd most powerful, surpassed only by HPE's 'Frontier' & Intel's 'Aurora' but:
- Microsoft only submitted a fraction of its supercomputer's capabilities. 😁
- Azure was the only public cloud that made the Top Supercomputing list.
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
✅ #Nvidia + #OpenAI + #Azure created the single best AI infrastructure in the world.
Largest submission to the MLPerf training benchmark (v3.1) w/ 10.7K GPUs, providing 5.1x better performance than any other cloud provider for GPT-3 benchmark.
Largest submission so for MLPerf model inferencing (v3.1) w/ 5.8x fastest querying performance than any other cloud provider with 99% accuracy for GPT-J benchmark.
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
✅ Vestas using AMD in Azure (EPYX & APUs) to run massive scalable simulations on weather data
✅ SAP is implementing their largest deployments - including Intel's own - on Azure with Intel 4th gen Xeon procs with 32TB of memory
✅ Azure Cobalt - 1st CPU designed by Microsoft for the Microsoft Cloud
64-bit ARM, 128 CPU cores... the fastest ARM CPU of any cloud provider (aka.ms/AzureCobalt)
Satya Nadella's Keynote speech at #Microsoft #Ignite2023:
https://youtu.be/FZhbJZEgKQ4?feature=shared
