Azure AI Platform announcements: New innovations for developers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most powerful forces in the digital transformation. At Microsoft, we believe developers, data scientists and enterprises should have easy access to the power of AI so they can build systems that augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways. Today, at Microsoft Build 2018, as we engage in conversations about digital transformation with over a million developers, customers and partners, I am pleased to share some of our latest and most exciting innovations in the Azure AI Platform. Cognitive Services are cloud hosted APIs for developers to easily add AI capabilities such as speech recognition, voice synthesis, vision, language understanding, translation, knowledge and Search. To date more than a million developers have already discovered and tried Cognitive Services, including the major auto insurance provider Progressive, British Telecom, Box.com, KPMG, and Big Fish Games.