Microsoft AI Partner Training Day & Microsoft AI Tour Sydney

Several resources were shared during Microsoft AI Partner Training Day & Microsoft AI Tour Sydney conference that I found quite handy. I have collated those below for myself and for others to benefit from.

Some of the AI Tour speakers have uploaded their slides and resources in the following repo:
https://github.com/microsoft/aitour-repo-principal-list

Learning
Microsoft announced that they would skill 1 million Aussies and Kiwis – which shows the growth we anticipate in the coming years. The following link can be a great start to keep up with AI learning.
https://aiskillsnavigator.microsoft.com/en-us

GenAI Beginners -21 Lessons
Generative AI For Beginners – This course contains 21 lessons and was designed by Microsoft Cloud Advocates.
https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners/tree/main

Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Studio is now the Azure AI Foundry portal. Azure AI Foundry is the new platform that allows developers to explore various models, services, and capabilities and quickly build AI applications. The organisation can also use their Azure subscription (MACC quota) to build and run AI models, which will remove the upfront investment cost of such a project.
https://ai.azure.com/

Open-Source Samples
Open-source repos with chat AI (backend) and web UI (frontend) samples used during the AI Tour presentation and workshop
– https://github.com/Azure-Samples/contoso-chat
– https://github.com/Azure-Samples/contoso-web

Prompty
Prompty is an asset class and format for LLM prompts designed to enhance observability, understandability, and portability for developers. The primary goal is accelerating the developer inner loop of prompt engineering and prompt source management in a cross-language and cross-platform implementation.
– https://prompty.ai/
– https://www.prompty.ai/docs
– https://github.com/Microsoft/prompty/
– https://microsoft.github.io/promptflow/how-to-guides/index.html

Copilot for Security Prompt Library: Samples, Templates, and Promptbooks
The link contains prompt examples, prompting templates, and promptbooks for use with Copilot for Security to provide ideas to build and create our own prompt.
– https://github.com/rod-trent/Copilot-for-Security/tree/main/Prompts

Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (Kaito)
Kaito is an operator that automates AI/ML model inference and tuning workloads in Kubernetes, supporting large open-source models like Falcon and Phi-3, with features like containerised model management, GPU auto-provisioning, and support for popular inference runtimes.
– https://github.com/kaito-project/kaito/tree/main

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