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Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Beyond the hype: Part 1, How trustworthy AI empowers US Government agencies

April 30, 2024 Apr 30, 2024 04/30/24
Kent Cunningham
Large language models’ (LLM) ability to transform mission workflows for US Government agencies is revolutionary and adoption is now starting to accelerate. As agencies begin to leverage LLMs, they unlock capabilities that promise to streamline processes and drive innovation forward. It also means that there’s more to be done in the near ...

Supporting Federal Agencies in Their Implementation of the Executive Order on AI – Part 1

April 23, 2024 Apr 23, 2024 04/23/24
authorsJason Payne, Kent Cunningham, Richard Brion
The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence (M-24-10) (the “Memo”), part of the President’s comprehensive strategy on AI, outlines a structured approach for federal agencies to leverage artificial intelligence responsibly. The Memo provides direction that establishes a governance framework, fosters...

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench now in public preview

March 18, 2024 Mar 18, 2024 03/18/24
authorsMujtaba Hamid, Prashant Varshney
Mujtaba Hamid, GM Product Management, Strategic Missions & Technologies, Microsoft Prashant Varshney, Head of Product, Azure MSWB, Strategic Missions & Technologies, Microsoft Designing a silicon chip, an aircraft engine, an autonomous system, running sub-surface simulation for oil drilling, and other complex engineering systems ...

Azure OpenAI service is now available in Azure Government

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24
Candice Ling
In October, I shared Microsoft’s commitment to bring the latest advances in AI to support critical government needs and further drive innovation for mission critical workloads. I am thrilled to announce Azure OpenAI Service is now available in Azure Government joining a comprehensive set of existing AI Platform of services that include Azure...

Decoding AI: Part 8, Data governance and generative AI

December 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023 12/19/23
authorsKent Cunningham, Siddhartha Chaturvedi
Welcome to Part 8 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous blog, we re-introduced a technique that can help us achieve better boundary conditions and quality outputs: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with GAI. In this module, we wrap up with a culmination of all our learnings till date, and how they can...

Accelerating AUKUS: Securing Multilateral and Multiagency Collaboration

November 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023 11/20/23
Scott Gills
Public - Private partnerships are successful. After years of talking about the need for public-private partnerships, the war in Ukraine has stress-tested the system. Since the war’s beginning in February 2022, Microsoft security teams, working closely with Ukrainian government officials, US government cybersecurity staff and US ...