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From describing AI to shipping it: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) thumbnail

From describing AI to shipping it: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

By Thimo Buchheister · Wednesday, May 15, 2024 · 0 comments

I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (exam AI-102) in May 2024 — the hands-on counterpart to the AI-900 fundamentals. Here's what the credential actually certifies, from planning and securing Azure AI solutions to building generative AI with Azure OpenAI, RAG, computer vision and document intelligence, and how it shows up in production work for our regulated German customers.

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Why I sat the AI-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals thumbnail

Why I sat the AI-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, February 15, 2024 · 0 comments

I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (exam AI-900) in February 2024. Here's what the credential actually certifies — AI workloads and responsible AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP and generative AI — and why a foundations credential matters when you build AI features for regulated customers.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: the age of Copilots — and the year Microsoft built its own silicon thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2023: the age of Copilots — and the year Microsoft built its own silicon

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, November 17, 2023 · 0 comments

Ignite 2023 in Seattle was where Microsoft declared itself 'the Copilot company,' rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, shipped Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric GA — and quietly revealed Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100, its first custom datacentre chips. We were in the room, and the silicon story is the one that still matters.

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