Azure Cognitive Services enters a new AI area Fortunately, the first new cognitive service to explore other aspects of machine learning entered beta recently: adding anomaly detection to the roster.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Anomaly Detector and Custom Vision in Azure Cognitive Services, its cloud-hosted AI toolkit.

Microsoft is extending its Azure Stream Analytics tool set with anomaly detection capabilities, powered by Machine Learning. For those curious to try, it is available now in private preview.