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The LinkedIn Learning short course Building AI-Ready Applications with Azure Databases and AI by Muazma Zahid, Principal Group PM Manager at Microsoft provides an overview of creating AI-ready applications using Azure's data and AI services. The code related to the course is in GitHub Codespaces .  Highlights: Key services Azure offers - Azure AI Search is a search as a service solution that integrates AI capabilities to enhance search results. It can analyze and understand the content of your data, providing more relevant and accurate search results.  Azure AI Studio is an integrated development environment for building, training, and deploying AI models.  Azure Data Services provide the infrastructure for storing, processing, and analyzing large amount of data. Azure offers a variety of database services, including Azure SQL Database , Cosmos DB , PostgreSQL , and MySQL . These databases are optimized for AI workloads providing high performance scalability and sec...

This Week I Learned -  * Microsoft 365 Education is a productivity cloud suite. Microsoft 365 builds on top of Office 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and provides enhanced management, security, and compliance tools. Microsoft 365 Education has three tiers of academic plans: A1, A3, and A5. A5 has the most comprehensive plan features [ PDF ]. Microsoft partnered with experts to develop Learning Accelerators tools Reading Progress and Reading Coach. *  DBRX is Databricks' Foundation Model * In Forrester's 21-criterion evaluation of AI Foundation Models for Language providers, Google, Databricks, NVIDIA emerged as Leaders in Q2 2024. * The first car was driven by a neural network in 1988. Twenty-five years later, Andrej Karpathy took his first demo ride in a Waymo. A decade after that, the company received its driverless permit. That’s thirty-five years of rigorous  engineering, testing, refinement, and regulatory navigation to go from p...