Weights & Biases streamlines AI development for customers with Azure integration

Weights & Biases is the go-to developer platform for AI teams worldwide, helping enterprises across industries evaluate, iterate, and monitor agentic AI applications and AI models—including foundation models and deep learning models—for use cases such as drug discovery and computer vision. 

The challenge

In the fast-evolving world of AI, Weights & Biases is helping enterprises efficiently evaluate, iterate, and monitor agentic AI applications and models with its AI developer platform. Enterprises already using Azure want an integrated experience to make it easier to scale their AI workloads.

The integrated solution

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. Azure OpenAI integration allows developers to fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with the Weights & Biases tools directly within the Azure OpenAI UI. Developers can automatically track fine-tuning jobs, as well as compare model versions and evaluate and trace large language model-powered applications. And with Azure Native Integration, developers can spin up Weights & Biases environments on Azure in just a few clicks, streamlining the AI development process.

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

Partnership with Microsoft

Sasha Manuilova, Director of Partnerships at Weights & Biases, explains, “We are integrated with Azure on every layer of the stack, ensuring that AI teams can build and scale AI projects with minimal friction.” Azure’s comprehensive cloud services provide cutting-edge AI capabilities to support this seamless experience.

Azure’s powerful GPU and CPU offerings support complex AI training workloads, ensuring that developers can experiment at scale. 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. By embedding Weights & Biases’ platform within Azure services, developers gain also gain a frictionless experience, whether fine-tuning OpenAI models or deploying AI applications.

This partnership began through Microsoft for Startups, designed to help startups scale their business and reach more customers.

“The all-star team at Microsoft for Startups helps you cover all the bases when it comes to navigating Microsoft: making connections to the relevant product teams, educating startups on all the things that need to be in place to align incentives of your team and Microsoft, creating meaningful marketing moments, as well as making direct introductions to enterprise customers. Time is the most precious resource at a startup, and the MfS team has proven playbooks that you can leverage to start partnering with Microsoft," says Manuilova.

Go-to-Market success

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

In 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.

Wayve, an AI-driven autonomous vehicle company, leverages Weights & Biases and Azure Machine Learning to train computer vision systems that power its self-driving cars.

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

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 AI. 

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