Azure Machine Learning
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/machine-learning
Microsoft Azure's managed ML platform — pipelines, AutoML, Designer, prompt flow (LLM). Heavy integration with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Studio.
At a glance
- Type
- Azure ML platform
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Training infrastructure
- Created
- 2015
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- Argilla T2
Open-source data-quality platform for LLM training data — human-in-the-loop labelling, RLHF data collection, dataset curation. Acquired by Hugging Face 2024.
- AWS SageMaker T1
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