OVERVIEW
Simplify development and improve AI efficiency
- Discover and evaluate foundation, open, task, and industry models for your app and integrate into your code with a unified API.
- Access collaborative, comprehensive GenAIOps tools to accelerate development and differentiate your apps.
- Assess and protect apps with configurable evaluations, safety filters, and security controls.
- Monitor and optimize app performance across environments, and govern resource use and access privileges.
- Accelerate the AI development lifecycle with an integrated library of SDKs and APIs.
- Easily provision cloud resources, access Azure AI capabilities, and consume models without switching platforms.
- Evaluate, debug, and improve application quality and safety across development, testing, and production environments.
- Automate workflows with action connectors.
- Ground your agents with relevant, secure enterprise knowledge from a variety of data sources.
- Harness the power of AI agents using a wide range of models from the Azure AI Foundry model catalog.
- Design agent applications with data privacy and compliance in mind with built-in enterprise and responsible AI features.
USE CASES AND CAPABILITIES
Enhance customer experiences with AI
Build intelligent applications with Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio).
Build your own agent
Securely build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade agents that automate complex business processes.
Chat with your data
Predict customer needs, accelerate time to resolution, connect teams, and streamline service delivery.
Analyze and summarize documents
Classify, extract, and gain deeper insights from documents.
Accelerate coding and documentation
Improve developer productivity with AI tools that help generate high-quality code and efficiently test and debug software.
Deliver personalized recommendations
Match and deliver content, products, and services using a deep understanding of customer needs, requirements, and preferences.
Improve information discovery
Extract valuable insights from large volumes of data.
Generate engaging content
Deliver personalized text and images at scale to improve customer satisfaction and retention.
Process transactions and detect fraud
Optimize processes, automate tasks, identify errors, and drive issues to resolution before they impact your business.
Improve forecasting
Improve decision-making, discover new knowledge, and create a competitive advantage by identifying patterns and making predictions.
Incorporate multiple models and data sources
Mix and match foundation and open models with your diverse datasets to innovate and differentiate your AI solutions.
Customize models
Orchestrate prompts, add retrieval augmented generation (RAG), enable distillation, and fine-tune models.
Enhance with agents
Transform your applications with agent-like workflows that respond to events, support reasoning, and perform autonomous tasks.
Support cloud and edge deployment
Run AI apps anywhere with Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).
Securely govern and continuously monitor
Implement network isolation, identity and access controls, and data encryption for secure, compliant AI operations.
Security
Built-in security and compliance
Microsoft has committed to investing USD20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
Pricing
Flexible, consumption-based pricing
Azure AI Foundry pricing is based on the individual features you access and use from the platform. Each feature has its own billing model and price.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure AI Foundry is a trusted, integrated platform for Developers and IT Administrators to design, customize, and manage AI applications and agents. It offers a rich set of AI capabilities and tools through a simple portal, unified SDK, and APIs, facilitating secure data integration, model customization, and enterprise-grade governance to accelerate the path to production.
- Azure AI Foundry is accessible through the world's most loved developer tools: GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio. This integration enables developers to work within their preferred environments, as they design and customize their AI applications and agents.
- Azure AI Foundry includes a robust and growing catalog of frontier and open-source models that can be applied over your data from Microsoft, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Meta, Mistral, and other partners. You can even compare models by task using open-source datasets and evaluate the model with your own test data to see how the pretrained model would perform to fit your own use case.
- Developers looking to build custom AI apps should look to Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry, which work together. Users looking to build agents in Copilot Studio can access the Azure AI Foundry model catalog which houses over 1,800 leading models and integrate their vectorized indices from Azure AI Search to deliver retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Developers can publish their custom agents to more than 15 Microsoft channels with the M365 Agents SDK and manage their deployments in production using Azure AI Foundry portal.
- Yes, Azure AI Foundry is now generally available at ai.azure.com. The Azure AI Foundry SDK is in public preview.
- Azure AI Studio is evolving into Azure AI Foundry to include the platform's updated features and capabilities. This platform brings developers the essential services they need directly into the tools they already use, making it easier and faster to move from idea to code to cloud. This helps get generative AI apps to market faster and more cost-efficiently.
- Customers will access Azure AI Foundry capabilities the same way they access Azure AI Studio, by visiting ai.azure.com.
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- [1]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, Jim Scheibmeir, Arun Batchu, Mike Fang, 29 April 2024.
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