Combining Azure Cognitive Search with the Azure OpenAI Service 12:30 pm June 13, 2023 By Julian Horsey There’s an exciting development making rounds in the tech arena: Azure Cognitive Search is ...

Microsoft’s Cognitive Search API now offers vector search as a service, ready for use with large language models in Azure OpenAI and beyond. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

Not only have Microsoft's Bot Framework and Service been updated, but new AI functionality and language capabilities have been introduced for apps that leverage Azure Cognitive Services as well.

The company also launched two features in Azure Cognitive Search — Private Endpoints and Managed Identities — plus enhancements to Bot Framework Composer and the broader Azure Bot Service.

At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Vector search in Azure Cognitive Search, a capability for building applications powered by large language models.

In addition, Azure Cognitive Search, a related service that focuses on — you guessed it — search, is also getting a couple of new capabilities.

The Azure Cognitive Search service acts as "an external knowledge base that can retrieve pieces quickly and with good relevance," Microsoft explained, in this announcement.

For example, in Azure Cognitive Search, Microsoft says its search service for mobile and web app development now allows businesses to use the same capabilities powering search engines like Bing to ...

The news follows other investments by Microsoft to improve search with Azure, including launching a preview of Azure Cognitive Search, an AI-powered cloud search service for mobile and web app ...