Microsoft at Pytorch 2024

For the first time, Microsoft was a sponsor of the annual Pytorch conference. At our booth, we met a huge range of developers, from startups, academia, industry, and even a few Pytorch maintainers! It was great to chat with everyone to find out how they're using Pytorch, ML, and Generative AI models, and suggest ways that Microsoft tools could help.

 

 

Our booth was staffed by Karissa Peth (Developer advocacy PM), Josh Oh (Python advocacy PM), Pamela Fox (Python advocate), Sanket Kalaskar (PM for Pytorch on Windows), Cedric Vidal (AI Advocate), plus Patrick Chanezon (Developer relations VP, not pictured).

 

Check out the resources that we shared with attendees:

 

Machine learning on Azure: 

• Pytorch on Azure 

• Train Pytorch models with Azure ML Studio 

• Deploy a scikit-learn model as an online endpoint 

 

Generative AI on Azure: 

• Develop AI Apps with Python 

• Fine-tuning models in Azure AI Studio 

• Fine-tuning SLMs for RAFT using Azure AI Studio 

• Azure AI Model Catalog 

• GitHub Models Marketplace 

• Azure Speech services 

 

Building RAG with Azure: 

• RAGHack: 25+ recorded live streams about RAG on Azure 

• RAG with Azure AI Search and OpenAI 

• RAG on PostgreSQL database 

• RAG chat evaluation tools 

 

Microsoft research projects in ML: 

• Phi Open Models 

• Phi-3 Cookbook 

• DiskANN: Efficient vector search 

• GraphRAG: Hierarchical approach to RAG 

• ONNX Runtime: Accelerated ML 

• pytorch-ort: Accelerate Pytorch models with Onnx runtime 

 

Using Python with Microsoft products: 

• Pytorch on Windows: Backlog 

• Python at Microsoft 

• Azure for Python developers 

• Python in Excel 

 

Azure credits: 

• Microsoft for Startups 

• Azure for Students 

• Certifications for students 

 

Learning resources: 

• Pytorch Fundamentals 

• Generative AI for Beginners 
• Data science tutorial for VS Code 

 

We hope to be back next year for Pytorch 2025!