Merge pull request #265404 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_02_06_2024_whats_new

[Azure OpenAI] [Release Branch] Updates

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/ai-services/openai/assistants-quickstart.md

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 # Quickstart: Get started using Azure OpenAI Assistants (Preview)
 
-Azure OpenAI Assistants (Preview) allows you to create AI assistants tailored to your needs through custom instructions and augmented by advanced tools like code interpreter, retrieval, and custom functions.
+Azure OpenAI Assistants (Preview) allows you to create AI assistants tailored to your needs through custom instructions and augmented by advanced tools like code interpreter, and custom functions.
 
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articles/ai-services/openai/whats-new.md

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-ms.date: 2/1/2024
+ms.date: 2/6/2024
 recommendations: false
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 # What's new in Azure OpenAI Service
 
 ## February 2024
 
+### Assistants API public preview
+
+Azure OpenAI now supports the API that powers OpenAI's GPTs. Azure OpenAI Assistants (Preview) allows you to create AI assistants tailored to your needs through custom instructions and advanced tools like code interpreter, and custom functions. To learn more, see:
+
+- [Quickstart](./assistants-quickstart.md)
+- [Concepts](./concepts/assistants.md)
+- [In-depth Python how-to](./how-to/assistant.md)
+- [Code Interpreter](./how-to/code-interpreter.md)
+- [Function calling](./how-to/assistant-functions.md)
+- [Assistants model & region availability](./concepts/models.md#assistants-preview)
+- [Assistants Samples](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azureai-samples/tree/main/scenarios/Assistants)
+
 ### OpenAI text to speech voices public preview
 
 Azure OpenAI Service now supports text to speech APIs with OpenAI's voices. Get AI-generated speech from the text you provide. To learn more, see the [overview guide](../speech-service/openai-voices.md) and try the [quickstart](./text-to-speech-quickstart.md).
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> Azure AI Speech also supports OpenAI text to speech voices. To learn more, see [OpenAI text to speech voices via Azure OpenAI Service or via Azure AI Speech](../speech-service/openai-voices.md#openai-text-to-speech-voices-via-azure-openai-service-or-via-azure-ai-speech) guide. 
+> Azure AI Speech also supports OpenAI text to speech voices. To learn more, see [OpenAI text to speech voices via Azure OpenAI Service or via Azure AI Speech](../speech-service/openai-voices.md#openai-text-to-speech-voices-via-azure-openai-service-or-via-azure-ai-speech) guide.
+
+### New Fine-tuning capabilities and model support
+
+- [Continuous fine-tuning](https://aka.ms/oai/fine-tuning-continuous)
+- [Fine-tuning & function calling](./how-to/fine-tuning-functions.md)
+- [`gpt-35-turbo 1106` support](./concepts/models.md#fine-tuning-models)
+
 
 ## December 2023