We created two technical e-books to provide advanced Unity users with a better onboarding experience. Now updated for Unity 2022 LTS features.
We created two technical e-books to provide advanced Unity users with a better onboarding experience. Now updated for Unity 2022 LTS features.
In collaboration with Meta, today Microsoft is excited to introduce Meta Llama 3 models to Azure AI. Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct pretrained and instruction fine-tuned models are the next generation of Meta Llama large language models (LLMs), available now on Azure AI Model Catalog. Trained on a significant amount of pretraining data, developers building with Meta Llama 3 models on Azure can experience significant boosts to overall performance, as reported by Meta. Microsoft is delighted to be a launch partner to Meta as enterprises, digital natives and developers build with Meta Llama 3 on Azure, supported with popular LLM developer tools like Azure AI prompt flow and LangChain.
Meta Llama 3 includes pre-trained, and instruction fine-tuned language models are designed to handle a wide spectrum of use cases. As indicated by Meta, Meta-Llama-3-8B, Meta-Llama-70B, Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct and Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct models showcase remarkable improvements in industry-standard benchmarks and advanced functionalities, such as improved reasoning abilities, as shared by Meta. Significant enhancements to post-training procedures have been reported by Meta, leading to a substantial reduction in false refusal rates and improvements in the alignment and diversity of model responses. According to Meta, these adjustments have notably enhanced the capabilities of Llama 3. Meta also states that Llama 3 retains its decoder-only transformer architecture but now includes a more efficient tokenizer that significantly boosts overall performance. The training of these models, as described by Meta, involved a combination of data parallelization, model parallelization, and pipeline parallelization across two specially designed 24K GPU clusters, with plans for future expansions to accommodate up to 350K H100 GPUs.
Read more about the new Llama 3 models here.
In November 2023, we launched Meta Llama 2 models on Azure AI, marking our inaugural foray into offering Models as a Service (MaaS). Coupled with a growing demand for our expanding MaaS offerings, numerous Azure customers across enterprise, SMC and digital natives have rapidly developed, deployed and operationalized enterprise-grade generative AI applications across their organizations.
The launch of Llama 3 reflects our strong commitment to enabling the full spectrum of open source to proprietary models with the scale of Azure AI-optimized infrastructure and to empowering organizations in building the future with generative AI.
Azure AI provides a diverse array of advanced and user-friendly models, enabling customers to select the model that best fits their use case. Over the past six months, we've expanded our model catalog sevenfold through our partnerships with leading generative AI model providers and releasing Phi-2, from Microsoft Research. Azure AI model catalog lets developers select from over 1,600 foundational models, including LLMs and SLMs from industry leaders like Meta, Cohere, Databricks, Deci AI, Hugging Face, Microsoft Research, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stability AI. This extensive selection ensures that Azure customers can find the most suitable model for their unique use case.
Developers using Meta Llama 3 models can work seamlessly with tools in Azure AI Studio, such as Azure AI Content Safety, Azure AI Search, and prompt flow to enhance ethical and effective AI practices. Here are some main advantages that highlight the smooth integration and strong support system provided by Meta's Llama 3 with Azure, Azure AI and Models as a Service:
These features demonstrate Azure's commitment to offering an environment where organizations can harness the full potential of AI technologies like Llama 3 efficiently and responsibly, driving innovation while maintaining high standards of security and compliance.
To get started with Azure AI Studio and deploy your first model, follow these clear steps:
The introduction of these latest Meta Llama 3 models reinforces our mission to scaling AI. As we continue to innovate and expand our model catalog, our commitment remains firm: to provide accessible, powerful, and efficient AI solutions that empower developers and organizations alike with the full spectrum of model options from open source to proprietary.
We invite you to explore and build with the new Meta Llama 3 models within the Azure AI model catalog and start integrating cutting-edge AI into your applications today. Stay tuned for more updates and developments.
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Welcome to our very first episode of Microsoft Build Unplugged, where we’re celebrating that registration is now open! Thank you to this week’s special guests Scott Hanselman, VP Developer Community and Leslie Richardson, Senior Product Manager as they share details about this year’s Microsoft Build, May 21–23, in Seattle.
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TL;DR: Microsoft ramps up Azure Marketplace ahead of MS Build 2024, and Syncfusion joins with cloud-ready solutions like Bold BI and Bold Reports. Syncfusion also shines in Visual Studio Dev Essentials and Visual Studio Marketplace, offering a wide array of tools and benefits.
Syncfusion proudly offers cloud-ready business intelligence, enterprise analytics, and data reporting solutions in Azure Marketplace, Microsoft’s online store for Azure-ready apps, services, and platforms. With the Build conference coming up in just a few weeks, we wanted to recognize the intense effort our development teams put into building top-notch enterprise software that meets the rigorous standards required to be listed in Azure Marketplace.
Our latest additions to Azure Marketplace are:
These are instantly accessible through your Azure portal or through the online Azure Marketplace. We’re glad to note that we have been part of the Azure Marketplace since 2018 when the precursors to Bold BI and Bold Reports were added to the store.
Syncfusion is one of the only third-party software vendors invited to offer benefits in the Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, a curated collection of free resources and tools aimed at accelerating development with Visual Studio on any platform. Several of our component suites, as well as our collection of 200+ concise technical ebooks, are benefits. Today, Bold BI is also included as a Dev Essentials benefit.
You can sign up for the VSDE program here.
All of our components and developer frameworks are listed in the Visual Studio Marketplace and have been for more than 20 years. Today, that’s more than 1,800 components for web, mobile, and desktop development that you can add to your Visual Studio environment in just a few clicks. Enhance your project on any platform: Blazor, Angular, React, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Flutter, WinForms, and more.
Syncfusion is proud to continue working with Microsoft and contributing to its ecosystem of programs and marketplaces where developers can find great solutions to meet their every need.
We will continue to add features and offers to these programs, so check in regularly to see what’s new.
Are you already a Syncfusion user? You can download the product setup here. If you’re not a Syncfusion user, you can download a free 30-day trial here.
If you have any questions, you can contact us through our support forum, support portal, or feedback portal. We are always happy to assist you!