Weights & Biases and Microsoft Azure partner to power AI Innovation

In the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence, enterprises need efficient ways to build and deploy agentic AI applications and AI models. Weights & Biases is on the front line of this challenge, providing an AI developer platform. With AI’s expanding role in industries like healthcare and autonomous driving, Weights & Biases customer requirements are many including the need to run AI workloads on Microsoft Azure. As a leader within the cloud space, Microsoft Azure has the infrastructure and services to supercharge AI development.

As the go-to platform for AI teams worldwide, many industries and enterprises look to Weights & Biases to accelerate agentic AI applications as well as deep learning use cases such as drug discovery and computer vision. 

According to Sasha Manuilova, Director of Partnerships at Weights & Biases, the company’s mission is to build the best tools for AI developers. Weights & Biases partnered with Microsoft Azure to seamlessly integrate into the AI development workflow and provide the computational power required for AI experimentation.

Their collaboration has led to exciting new developments, including:

Azure OpenAI Integration: Developers can now fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with the Weights & Biases platform directly within the Azure OpenAI Service UI, making it easier than ever to optimize AI applications. Developers can automatically track fine-tuning jobs, as well as compare model versions and evaluate and trace large language model-powered applications.

Azure Native Integration: With just a few clicks, developers can spin up Weights & Biases environments on Azure, streamlining the AI development process.

Azure Marketplace Availability: The Weights & Biases platform is available for seamless procurement via Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, allowing enterprise teams to seamlessly adopt the platform while leveraging existing cloud budgets.

Weights & Biases’ seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem ensures that AI teams can connect their workflows to data sources, compute environments, and AI applications and models within Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

Innovation that powers solutions

Azure’s comprehensive cloud services provide developers with cutting-edge AI capabilities:

Scalability & Compute Power: Azure’s powerful GPU and CPU offerings support complex AI training workloads, ensuring that developers can experiment at scale.

Enterprise-Ready AI: Azure OpenAI’s balance of out-of-the-box defaults and customizable controls with access to Weights & Biases allows teams of all skill levels to optimize their AI models effectively.

Seamless Integration: By embedding Weights & Biases’ platform within Azure services, developers gain a frictionless experience, whether fine-tuning OpenAI models or deploying AI applications.

According to Sasha Manuilova, “We are integrated with Azure on every layer of the stack, ensuring that AI teams can build and scale AI projects with minimal friction.”

Advancing multiple industries with AI innovation

The collaboration between Weights & Biases and Microsoft Azure is already making a tangible impact across multiple industries:

Healthcare: Weights & Biases partnered with a large hospital system to build a natural language processing (NLP) model that scans doctors’ notes for missed follow-ups, ensuring patients receive timely care.

Autonomous Driving: Wayve, an AI-driven autonomous vehicle company, leverages Weights & Biases and Azure ML to train its computer vision systems—powering self-driving cars.

Consumer Packaged Goods: Weights & Biases partnered with a large CPG company to help build and monitor performance of their chatbots to ensure they follow the brand guidelines. 

Accelerated AI Development: Customers report that Weights & Biases significantly reduces the time from idea to production allowing for faster innovation cycles.

A future powered by AI and cloud innovation

As AI continues to transform industries, the partnership between Weights & Biases and Microsoft Azure is poised for further breakthroughs. With the introduction of Azure AI Foundry, Weights & Biases anticipates even smoother AI development experiences, helping enterprises push the boundaries of what’s possible with machine learning.

Looking ahead, Weights & Biases aims to expand its integrations within the Azure ecosystem, unlocking new capabilities for AI developers and ensuring that enterprises can build, train, and deploy AI models faster than ever before. “We are very excited about the joint announcements we’ve made this week at Microsoft Ignite,” says Manuilova. “The support from Microsoft—on the marketing, go-to-market, and product sides—has been phenomenal, and we look forward to deepening our partnership.”