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Introducing Sora, Open AI’s text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. Open AI will be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products, working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who are adversarially testing the model. All the clips in this video were generated directly by Sora without modification.

Learn more about Sora: https://openai.com/sora

This is a big deal.

Microsoft’s Legal and Affairs team is offering an important webinar series for its customers, partners and outside counsel regarding key legal considerations around Microsoft’s AI Journey and Microsoft’s AI products.

They will be covering 4 key topics:

• AI Fundamentals
• Microsoft’s AI Journey
• Copilot for Microsoft 365
• Azure Open AI

The series will take place between February and May 2024.

• There are 3 distinct AI & Legal webinar SERIES you can join… be sure to choose the right one!
• Customer (Feb 28th, Mar 20, Apr 24, May 22, 2024)
• Partner (Feb 29th, Mar 21, Apr 25, May 23, 2024)
• Outside Counsel (Feb 29th, Mar 21, Apr 25, May 23, 2024)
• The sessions will be broadcast live and will take 75 minutes each, including time for Q&A.
• You’ll see the acronym “CELA” a lot – that’s Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs organization.

Sign up now for more information.

• Microsoft AI Webinars – Focusing on Legal Considerations (Feb, Mar, Apr, May 2024)
  https://ai-legalcounselwebinar.com/

#azure #copilot #microsoft #azureopenai #data #legal

For those of you that are interested in "Optimization" for Azure – including Cost Management, you may appreciate the following 2 day Optimization classes: (The first instance of this class I originally posted registered full.)

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TRAINING: Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization" – 2-day

• Understand how to apply cloud optimization best practices, frameworks, and core resources to your organization.
• Learn how to use the FinOps Framework, the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Discover how to maximize business value and innovation by improving cloud security, workload migration, and modernization efforts.

Day 1:

• Azure optimization and FinOps as a mindset overview with demos of Microsoft Cost Management and a FinOps review
• Design for optimization: Balancing cost and growth within your cloud platform
• Demo: Prepare your cloud environments for ongoing optimization

Day 2

• Continuous improvement: Optimize the architecture of your workloads
• Continuous improvement: Optimize your existing workloads
• Demo: Review and remediate a workload deployed in production

Available Sessions
There are two opportunities to attend this training:  One in March & one in April.  Both are 2-day trainings.

• MARCH: Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization"
  03/20/2024 | 09:00 (PDT) – 03/21/2024 | 11:45 (PDT)
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/426744/157-GQE-382
• APRIL: Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization"
  04/04/2024 | 09:00 (PDT) – 04/05/2024 | 11:45 (PDT)
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/428182/157-GQE-382

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud "Ninja Training" just got updated!

It now includes:

1. Knowledge Check (Quiz)
2. Defender for Cloud Ninja Certificate
3. Defender for Servers Ninja Certificate

This is the most viewed post of all time in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Tech Community post with 262K views.

• BLOG: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Ninja Training
  https://aka.ms/MDCNinja

Start building a more equitable and accessible future

In this free digital event, you can explore new accessible technology and learn from leaders with a deep and sometimes personal understanding of disabilities in the workplace. This is your chance to find out how to embed accessibility into your organization and improve opportunities for people across the disability spectrum.

Agenda

• 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome Keynote
  Every one of us can be part of creating a more inclusive future. Start the day with a spark of innovation, learning how today’s technology is leading a tomorrow that’s accessible.
• 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM Breakout sessions
  Broaden your knowledge by participating in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions.
• 10:10 AM – 10:55 AM Breakout sessions
  Make connections by joining experts in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions who are making accessibility easier to achieve.
• 11:05 AM – 12:05 PM Keynote 2
  Be some of the first to discover tools disabled developers can use to accelerate their work, and how all makers can create more inclusive tech.
• 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Breakout sessions
  Learn how you can create the future of accessible technology while amplifying the perspective of people with disabilities in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions.
• 1:10 PM – 2:10 PM Closing Keynote
  As you look forward to a future that prioritizes inclusivity, how can you build a more accessible world? Join us as we close out the day with actionable steps and tools we can all use.

Register today!

• Date/Time:
  March 7, 2024
  8:00AM-2:10PM PT
• Registration:
  https://aka.ms/abilitysummit

Today we are releasing an open automation framework, PyRIT (Python Risk Identification Toolkit for generative AI), to empower security professionals and machine learning engineers to proactively find risks in their generative AI systems.

At Microsoft, we believe that security practices and generative AI responsibilities need to be a collaborative effort. We are deeply committed to developing tools and resources that enable every organization across the globe to innovate responsibly with the latest artificial intelligence advances. This tool, and the previous investments we have made in red teaming AI since 2019, represents our ongoing commitment to democratize securing AI for our customers, partners, and peers.  

WHAT IS PyRIT?
PyRIT is a library developed by the AI Red Team for researchers and engineers to help them assess the robustness of their LLM endpoints against different harm categories such as fabrication/ungrounded content (e.g., hallucination), misuse (e.g., bias), and prohibited content (e.g., harassment).

PyRIT automates AI Red Teaming tasks to allow operators to focus on more complicated and time-consuming tasks and can also identify security harms such as misuse (e.g., malware generation, jailbreaking), and privacy harms (e.g., identity theft).​

The goal is to allow researchers to have a baseline of how well their model and entire inference pipeline is doing against different harm categories and to be able to compare that baseline to future iterations of their model. This allows them to have empirical data on how well their model is doing today, and detect any degradation of performance based on future improvements.

Additionally, this tool allows researchers to iterate and improve their mitigations against different harms. For example, at Microsoft we are using this tool to iterate on different versions of a product (and its metaprompt) so that we can more effectively protect against prompt injection attacks.

Read the announcement here:

• ANNOUNCEMENT: Microsoft’s Open Automation Framework to Red Team Generative AI Systems (PyRIT)
  aka.ms/PYRITblog
• ZDNET: “Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public:
  PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response”
  https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-tool-used-for-internal-gen-ai-red-teaming-to-the-public/
• DOWNLOAD: Azure PyRIT
  https://github.com/Azure/PyRIT
• DOCS: PyRIT How To Guide
  https://github.com/Azure/PyRIT/blob/main/doc/how_to_guide.ipynb
• DOCS: Microsoft AI Red Teaming Site
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/ai-red-team/

Make AI real for your organization today. Read AI Use Cases for Business Leaders: Realize Value with AI to discover the common scenarios and processes where AI is already having the biggest impact—and see how to bring AI to your organization to boost productivity, optimize efficiency, and generate new business value.

Get the e-book to:

• Learn about the principles and practices for responsible AI that Microsoft offers to help you build trustworthy AI systems.
• Discover how AI is transforming major industries, including manufacturing, retail, finance, and healthcare.
• Explore real-world use cases where AI is helping businesses make an impact today—and see how Microsoft customers are using AI to drive better business results.

Download:

• eBook: “AI Use Cases for Business Leaders – Realize Value with AI” (.PDF)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-ai-use-cases-for-business-leaders.html

Lay the groundwork for future innovation by migrating your Windows Server and SQL Server workloads to Azure. Read the e-book, Build an AI-Ready Infrastructure in the Cloud, to learn how:

• Migration helps you protect your apps and resources with code-to-cloud security and comprehensive compliance offerings.
• Well-known companies use cloud infrastructure to support their AI strategies.
• Businesses are deploying next-gen AI solutions from cloud and hybrid environments faster than ever using Azure.

Get the eBook here:

• DOWNLOAD: Build AI-Ready Infrastructure (.PDF)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-build-an-ai-ready-infrastructure-in-the-cloud.html?lcid=en-us

AI-powered innovations in cybersecurity are reshaping how businesses of every size—and across every industry—secure and protect their data.

Join us at the second annual Microsoft Secure digital event to learn how to bring world-class threat intelligence, complete end-to-end protection, and industry-leading, responsible AI to your organization.

Register today to:

• Be among the first to hear about new products, capabilities, and offerings.
• Get demos on the latest AI-powered innovations.
• Learn from industry luminaries and influencers.

Date:
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)

Registration:
Microsoft Secure
https://mssecure.eventcore.com/?ocid=cmmpnpc43nv

We’re thrilled to announce the much-anticipated Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data is now generally available! The groundbreaking feature empowers you to leverage the power of OpenAI models, such as GPT-4, and incorporates the advanced capabilities of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model, directly on your data with enterprise-grade security on Azure.

This cutting-edge capability transforms the way you connect, interact, and ground your data, with greater accuracy and speed through a user-friendly conversational experience. You can rapidly create personalized copilots with your data to enhance user comprehension, expedite task completion, and aid decision-making.

Read more here:

• On Your Data is now Generally Available in Azure OpenAI Service
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/on-your-data-is-now-generally-available-in-azure-openai-service/ba-p/4059514

#AzureOpenAI #AI #OpenAI #Copilot #ResponsibleAI #microsoft #msftadvocate