Edi Wang

Microsoft MVP for Azure

AI

18
DEC

Secure Your Azure OpenAI API for Azure App Service with VNet Integration

When deploying Azure OpenAI resources, prioritizing security is essential. One critical step is to restrict access to your API endpoint, ensuring only your applications can connect. By implementing such measures, even if your API key is leaked, unauthorized users will be unable to exploit it—protecting you from unexpected charges. Follow the steps outlined in this blog post to implement network restrictions and safeguard your resources.
Azure Network AI App Service
06
JUL

Deploy big-AGI to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes

big-AGI, the AI suite for professionals that need function, form, simplicity, and speed. Powered by the latest models from 12 vendors and open-source servers, big-AGI offers best-in-class Chats, Beams, and Calls with AI personas, visualizations, coding, drawing, side-by-side chatting, and more. However, the official repository of big-AGI does not offer a one-click installation for Azure, and the built-in authentication is only basic username and password. In this post, I'll share how to deploy big-AGI to Azure without the need to create a VM, and setup access control that requires individual accounts in Entra ID to log in, without making any changes to the code.
Azure AI App Service
27
APR

Beginners Guide to Run ChatGPT-Like AI Locally on Windows PC with Interactive UI

I own a Windows 11 PC equipped with an RTX 4070 GPU and would like to use its power for local AI applications. There's a clear need for a simpler way to leverage AI technology for beginners and non-tech users. In this guide, I'll walk you through the essential steps to get your AI model up and running on a Windows machine with a interactive UI in just 30 minutes—no advanced expertise required.
AI
11
SEP

Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure Container Apps with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post of "Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes". In this blog post, I will share a new approach to deploy ChatGPT Next Web besides App Service, which is to use Azure Container Apps. My objective is to complete these tasks within three minutes. Let's explore how this can be achieved.
Azure AI Docker Container
18
MAY

Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes

ChatGPT Next Web is a well-known web UI project for ChatGPT. However, the official repository does not offer a one-click installation option for Azure, and it lacks individual account authentication. We will explore how to deploy it to Azure without creating a VM, add access control to log in to use ChatGPT without any code modification, and complete these tasks within three minutes.
Azure AI App Service
01
AUG

Get Transcription from Twitter Space using Azure Speech Service

Although Twitter Space audio recording has it's own transcription, it is sometimes incorrectly recognizing wrong languages. For example, English content are producing Chinese transcription (not translation), and not even the English transcription make sense. Let's see how we can get a correct transcription using Azure. …
Azure AI