Microsoft Expands AI Reach with Partnership with French Start-up Mistral

Microsoft has taken another notable step forward in the realm of artificial intelligence by announcing a strategic partnership with Mistral, a French AI start-up based in Paris. This move further exemplifies Microsoft’s commitment to broaden its presence in the rapidly evolving AI industry beyond its existing alliance with OpenAI and at a global scale.

Microsoft’s Quest for the Next Killer App

In this contributed article, Gordon McKenna, VP of Cloud Evangelist & Alliances at Ensono, discusses the situation with Microsoft strongly backing OpenAI, what can we expect the future to look like? Microsoft’s investment into OpenAI was a clear move for the company to align itself with the next killer app that would drive engagement on Azure cloud. 

Anaconda Distribution for Python Brings Data Science to Hundreds of Millions of Microsoft Excel Users

Anaconda Inc., the provider of one of the world’s most widely used and trusted data science and AI platforms, announced the beta availability of Anaconda Distribution for Python in Excel, a new integration with Microsoft Excel.  Anaconda’s Python distribution is fully embedded and integrated into the Excel grid toolboxes for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data and for advanced machine learning and AI. Python in Excel is currently rolling out to Public Preview and is available for Microsoft Insiders.

NVIDIA Collaborates With Microsoft to Accelerate Enterprise-Ready Generative AI

NVIDIA today announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning to help enterprises accelerate their AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully supported in NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the software layer of NVIDIA’s AI platform.

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The “Rapid Response” Tool Businesses are Using Right Now

In this contributed article, Rob Collie, founder and CEO of business intelligence consulting firm P3, discusses how businesses are turning to Microsoft Power BI to make faster, more informed decisions. When changing conditions lead to new questions that haven’t been asked before, business leaders and data professionals alike need a tool that is designed to cross data silos and respond to the velocity of questions, without re-engineering the system.

Microsoft Announcements on Azure Artificial Intelligence

In this contributed article, Arindam Ray Chaudhuri, COO at AgreeYa, shares the new and exciting Azure AI developments. With the effective utilization of Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks and ONNX, organizations can build, train and deploy their machine learning models efficiently and seamlessly.