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Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog

Posted on:22 September 2023

We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from technology. With the convergence of chat interfaces and large language models you can now ask for what you want in natural language and the technology is smart enough to answer, create it or take ac…

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog

Kamal 1.0

Posted on:21 September 2023

I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for Kubernetes and VM too…

Kamal 1.0

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog

Posted on:13 September 2023

.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog

New free, interactive Angular course for beginners on Sololearn

Posted on:8 September 2023

We are delighted to announce that we’ve collaborated with the online interactive code learning platform Sololearn to develop an…

New free, interactive Angular course for beginners on Sololearn

You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API – Ars Technica

Posted on:6 September 2023

Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo outputs.

You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API – Ars Technica

Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness!

Posted on:2 September 2023

In this article, I describe my journey creating a barely functional rust backend enabling compilation for the .NET runtime (Usually used to run C# and F#). It is currently in the proof-of-concept stage, but I believe it still may be of some interest.

Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness!

Generally available: Azure Container Apps workload profiles, more networking features, and jobs - Microsoft Community Hub

Posted on:31 August 2023

Announcing the general availability of workload profiles, Dedicated plan, additional networking features, and jobs in Azure Container Apps.

Generally available: Azure Container Apps workload profiles, more networking features, and jobs - Microsoft Community Hub

Google's Gemini AI is a Serious Threat to ChatGPT – Here's Why

Posted on:29 August 2023

Google's new Gemini LLM has the potential to unseat ChatGPT due to its vast array of proprietary training data. Learn more about it here.

Google's Gemini AI is a Serious Threat to ChatGPT – Here's Why

A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot - The GitHub Blog

Posted on:26 August 2023

Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request.

A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot - The GitHub Blog

OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!

Posted on:26 August 2023

Read the official announcement: opentf.org/announcement

OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!

Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure

Posted on:24 August 2023

written an eBook for Microsoft titled Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. It's part of the .NET Application Architecture guidance portal on Microsoft.com. The book also includes a sample reference online store application that demonstrates (in a very simple ap…

Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure

Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.

Posted on:23 August 2023

Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the..

Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.

SpeechX - Microsoft Research

Posted on:21 August 2023

Neural Codec Language Model as a Versatile Speech Transformer SpeechX is a versatile speech generation model leveraging audio and text prompts, which can deal with both clean and noisy speech inputs and perform zero-shot TTS and various tasks involving transforming the input speech. SpeechX combines…

SpeechX - Microsoft Research

TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GGML · Hugging Face

Posted on:5 August 2023

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GGML · Hugging Face

Automating End-to-End testing with Playwright and Azure Pipelines

Posted on:2 August 2023

The article discusses the importance of end-to-end testing in software development. It introduces Playwright, an open-source automation framework developed by..

Automating End-to-End testing with Playwright and Azure Pipelines

TypeChat

Posted on:2 August 2023
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How to use function calling with Azure OpenAI Service - Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Learn

Posted on:27 July 2023

Learn how to use function calling with the GPT-35-Turbo and GPT-4 models

How to use function calling with Azure OpenAI Service - Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Learn

Function calling is now available in Azure OpenAI Service - Microsoft Community Hub

Posted on:22 July 2023

Function calling is now available in Azure OpenAI Service and gives the latest 0613 versions of gpt-35-turbo and gpt-4 the ability to produce structured JSON..

Function calling is now available in Azure OpenAI Service - Microsoft Community Hub

Microsoft VP: Bing chatbot has increased click-throughs | Fortune

Posted on:15 July 2023

Bing’s chatbot is increasing traffic to websites and giving publisher websites clicks, not detracting from their viewership as some feared.

Microsoft VP: Bing chatbot has increased click-throughs | Fortune