OVERVIEW
Get enterprise AI without enterprise complexity
- Discover and evaluate foundation, open, task, and industry models for your use case and integrate into your code with a unified API.
- Orchestrate production-ready agents. Customize models with fine-tuning and distillation.
- Continuously monitor and optimize AI performance with configurable evaluations, safety filters, resource and security controls.
USE CASES AND CAPABILITIES
Enhance customer experiences with AI
Build intelligent applications with Azure AI Foundry.
Get started with AI chat
Create and deploy basic Azure container chat applications integrated with your data and telemetry insights.
Get started with AI agents
Create and deploy basic Azure container agent applications with agentic actions and telemetry insights.
Generate documents from your data
Quickly generate contracts, invoices, and investment proposals by finding and summarizing relevant information from your data.
Build a conversational agent
Use advanced conversational understanding to build deterministic and controllable chatbots and AI assistants.
Improve client meetings with agents
Save time and prepare relevant discussion topics for scheduled client meetings.
Multimodal content processing
Process claims, invoices, contracts, and other text, images, tables, and graph content quickly and accurately. Extract information from unstructured content and map it to a structured format.
Deploy AI applications in production
Deploy a secure, extensible, integrated environment to run your AI applications in production.
Unlock insights from conversational data
Improve contact center efficiency by uncovering insights from large audio and text-based datasets using advanced content understanding capabilities.
Modernize your code with agents
Migrate legacy code to modern languages using a team of agents.
Multi-agent workflow automation
Enhance task planning and automation by orchestrating and managing a group of AI agents.
Incorporate multiple models and data sources
Mix and match 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
Use Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen to transform your applications with workflows that respond to events, support reasoning, and perform autonomous tasks.
Support cloud and edge deployment
Run AI apps anywhere with Foundry Local, Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).
Securely govern
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 $20 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 services and features you access and use from the platform. Each service and feature has its own billing model and price.
Services
Azure AI Foundry services and related products
Azure AI Foundry SDK
Streamline the AI development lifecycle with an integrated library of SDKs and APIs.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Customers are innovating with Azure AI Foundry
Gartner
Learn why Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services (CAIDS).1
RESOURCES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure AI Foundry enables teams to design, customize, manage, and support AI applications and agents that unlock insights from data, process and generate multimodal content, modernize code, and automate workflows. The flexible, modular, interoperable platform offers a rich set of AI models, tools, knowledge connectors, agent frameworks, and machine learning capabilities through a portal, unified SDK, and APIs. Azure AI Foundry interoperates with GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio to accelerate development productivity.
- Azure AI Foundry includes a robust and growing catalog of frontier and open-source models that can be applied over your data from Microsoft, Azure OpenAI, DeepSeek, 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.
- Azure AI Foundry is generally available at ai.azure.com. Download the Azure AI Foundry SDK at aka.ms/aifoundrysdk.
- Azure AI Foundry Labs is a hub for developers, startups, and enterprises to explore groundbreaking innovations from research at Microsoft, including Muse, Aurora, ExACT, Magentic-One, MatterSim, OmniParser, TamGen, and other projects.
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- [1]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, Jim Scheibmeir, Arun Batchu, Mike Fang, April 29, 2024.
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