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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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Microsoft Build 2023: the year Copilot became the platform thumbnail

Microsoft Build 2023: the year Copilot became the platform

By Thimo Buchheister · Thursday, May 25, 2023 · 0 comments

Build 2023 was the AI inflection — Windows Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Studio, a shared plugin standard with OpenAI, and the Copilot stack. Three days in Seattle when 'add an AI feature' quietly turned into 'build a copilot.' Our notes from the room.

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Microsoft Ignite 2022: 'do more with less,' Entra grows up, and the quiet arrival of DALL·E 2 thumbnail

Microsoft Ignite 2022: 'do more with less,' Entra grows up, and the quiet arrival of DALL·E 2

By Thimo Buchheister · Friday, October 14, 2022 · 0 comments

Ignite 2022 ran the whole show under one slogan — 'do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud.' Entra became a real identity family, Defender for DevOps and CSPM previewed, Teams Premium and Syntex landed, and Microsoft slipped DALL·E 2 into Azure and a new Designer app — three weeks before ChatGPT changed everything.

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