Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) is an interoperable AI platform that enables developers to build faster and smarter, while organizations gain fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal. It’s never been easier to build, deploy, and scale AI apps and agents that understand your business context and deliver business impact.

Foundry is for any organization that builds and scales AI solutions, including start-ups, independent software vendors, AI development teams, data science and machine learning groups, data engineers, IT administrators, and security professionals.

Foundry is comprised of everything you need to get started quickly and adopt AI with confidence. Natively integrated services include:

Foundry Models, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Tools, Foundry IQ (our evolution of Azure AI Search), Azure Machine Learning, Foundry Control Plane, Foundry Local.

Additional Azure application services and Microsoft knowledge sources are made accessible via Foundry, including:

Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Managed Redis, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor.

In addition, Foundry supports integration with open protocols and frameworks, third-party knowledge sources, custom tools, and models.

Foundry supports a wide range of application patterns and provides customizable quick start templates for popular AI use cases as designated by our customers. Customers can build anything they imagine from simple Q&A chatbots to complex, autonomous, multi-agent workflows, digital agents, RPA-like automation, and AI microservices.

You do not need an Azure account to explore Foundry. However, before you can start building agents, you will need an Azure subscription.

Begin your discover of Foundry at ai.azure.com.