TLDR: Next Gen AI for Developers with Microsoft Cloud by Scott Guthrie at Microsoft Build 2024

Scott Guthrie’s talk, “Next Generation AI for Developers with the Microsoft Cloud,” highlighted significant advancements and tools for developers leveraging AI and the Microsoft Cloud.

Here’s a TLDR to give you a quicker way to stay updated on all the key announcements.

Notable Moments from Scott Guthries Talk

Here’s are several notable moments from Scott Guthrie’s talk on “Nexts generation AI for developers with the Microsoft Cloud” (aka, the developer keynote) during Microsoft Build 2024:

Key Announcements

Developer Adoption

• World’s Most Used Developer Tools:
  • Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code with over 40 million active developers worldwide.
  • GitHub is used by over 100 million developers and is the literal home of Open Source.
• GitHub Copilot: The first Copilot solution built by Microsoft, offers an AI pair programmer used by millions of developers.
• GitHub Copilot Business: Used by over 50,000 organizations today to supercharge productivity of developers.
• Microsoft Copilot Studio: Already used by 30,000+ companies
• Azure Fabric: 11,000 paying organizations since GA six months ago

Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot Workspace: A Copilot-native dev environment, designed for everyday tasks
• .NET Aspire is GA: Now Generally Available, opinionated stack for building cloud-native applications
• GitHub Copilot for Azure: An extension for GitHub Copilot, that enables developers to use natural language to ask questions and get answers about code, Azure cloud environment and resources.
• Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents: Easily extend Microsoft Copilot to create your own Copilots, now with Agents that will help orchestrate and automate the process.
• Azure AI Studio is now Generally Available

Azure Cloud and AI Services

• 100% Renewable Energy by 2025: Microsoft is on track for Azure to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025, for Azure to have zero-carbon emissions.
• Microsoft Runs on Azure AI: Copilot and other Microsoft services are running on Azure AI.
• Rich and Flexible Set of Application Services: Same services running Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and GitHub Copilot
• Azure AI Adoption: Already used by 50,000+ companies today.
• AKS Automatic: Easiest managed Kubernetes experience, automates everything from cluster setup and management, to performance and security. Robust security safeguards and policies built-in.
• Azure OpenAI Batch Service: Up to 50% discount for AI jobs with 24-hour job completion, taking advantage of unused capacity overnight and off-peak times.
• Azure AI Offers Over 1,600 Foundation AI Models: Thanks to partnership with Hugging Face.
• New Phi-3 Small, Medium and Vision Models: New Phi-3 SLM models including Phi-3 Vision.
• Models-as-a-Service: Enabling cutting edge models, ready to use APIs
• Azure AI Content Safety: Added new capabilities for prompt injection attacks and hallucination errors; including more risk prevention tools.

Azure Data and Analytics

• Copilot capabilities in Azure Databases: AI-enhanced management and performance. Provide help for managing and operating Azure SQL Databases, write T-SQL queries, and chat with Azure Database for MySQL technical documentation in natural language.
• Azure Cosmos DB Vector Search: Search by semantic meaning and Cosmos DB takes care of the rest to help build RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) applications.
• Azure AI Extension for PostgreSQL is now Generally Available: Enabling PostgreSQL developers to invoke Azure AI models.
• Azure Fabric Real-time Intelligence: Instant actionable insights on all streaming data across clouds.
• OneLake makes Azure Databricks and Azure Fabric Interoperable
• Azure Databricks GA of AI Vector Search
• Expanded Partnership with Snowflake: Snowflake will be able to integrate with OneLake
• Apache Iceberge support on OneLake: Unify your data estate with open formats support in OneLake

Watch the Session

You can watch Scott Guthrie’s “Next generation AI for developers with the Microsoft Cloud” talk (aka the developer keynote) on the official Microsoft Build 2024 website.

Conclusion

Scott Guthrie’s keynote at Microsoft Build 2024 showcased the significant strides Microsoft is making in empowering developers with cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies. From enhancing productivity with tools like GitHub Copilot to the sustainable energy goals of Azure, the talk underscored Microsoft’s commitment to innovation and environmental responsibility. The advancements in Azure AI, developer tools, and data analytics present exciting opportunities for developers to build more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable applications.