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Thought Leadership April 30 4 min read

PostgreSQL enters its AI era: Run PostgreSQL like a pro in the era of AI and rapid growth

Postgres can handle intelligent workloads and scale without sacrificing security, performance, reliability, or operational ease.

Tutorials and demos July 7, 2025 7 min read

Optimizing memory usage in large language models fine-tuning with KAITO: Best practices from Phi-3

The Cloud Native team at Azure is working to make AI on Kubernetes more cost-effective and approachable for a broader range of users.

Project updates November 12, 2024 8 min read

What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024

At Microsoft, we are committed to innovation in the cloud-native ecosystem through contributions and leadership from engineers across Azure.

Events April 18, 2023 3 min read

Join Microsoft at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

As we come together in Amsterdam, there are significant headwinds and challenges facing us, but I’m confident that open-source and cloud-native computing are critical parts of the solutions.

Project updates December 17, 2020 5 min read

Accelerate and simplify Scikit-learn model inference with ONNX Runtime

Scikit-learn is one of the most useful libraries for general machine learning in Python.

Project updates December 14, 2020 1 min read

ONNX Runtime scenario highlight: Vespa.ai integration

Since its open source debut two years ago, ONNX Runtime has seen strong growth with performance improvements, expanded platform and device compatibility, hardware accelerator support, an extension to training acceleration, and more.

Tutorials and demos October 21, 2020 4 min read

How to deploy Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure

From startups to the global 2000, Elastic powers search solutions for thousands of companies worldwide to find documents, monitor infrastructure, protect against security threats, and more.

Project updates August 24, 2020 4 min read

GPT-2 fine-tuning with ONNX Runtime – a 34% speedup in training time

Model training is an important step when developing and deploying large scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.

News June 30, 2020 1 min read

Hyperspace, an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark™, is now open source

For Microsoft’s internal teams and external customers, we store datasets that span from a few GBs to 100s of PBs in our data lake.

Project updates May 19, 2020 3 min read

Announcing accelerated training with ONNX Runtime—train models up to 45% faster

ONNX Runtime is an open source project that is designed to accelerate machine learning across a wide range of frameworks, operating systems, and hardware platforms.

Project updates January 21, 2020 4 min read

Microsoft open sources breakthrough optimizations for transformer inference on GPU and CPU

This post is co-authored by Emma Ning, Azure Machine Learning; Nathan Yan, Azure Machine Learning; Jeffrey Zhu, Bing; Jason Li, Bing One of the most popular deep learning models used for natural language processing is BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers).

News January 20, 2020 2 min read

Announcing Applied Cloud Stories

We are delighted to announce the Applied Cloud Stories initiative by Microsoft! What is Applied Cloud Stories? Do you work with open source? Are you passionate about machine learning or data science? Do you have stories to share about solving scale or data challenges? Are you investing time and effort so that you and your […]