Azure AI Foundry
Develop and deploy custom AI apps and APIs responsibly with a comprehensive platform.
Code the future of AI with prebuilt and customizable models, templates, and tools.
OVERVIEW
Simplify development and improve AI efficiency
- Build apps with industry-leading AI services and models using a unified API.
- Access collaborative, comprehensive GenAIOps tools to accelerate the development lifecycle and differentiate your apps.
- Assess and protect apps with configurable evaluations, safety filters, and security controls.
- Deploy AI innovations to Azure’s managed infrastructure with continuous monitoring and governance across environments.
Use cases
Reinvent customer experiences and reshape business processes with AI
Build intelligent applications using Microsoft’s AI application platform
Build your own AI agent
Use AI workflows to help optimize processes, automate tasks, and improve productivity so employees can focus on critical work.
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 to users, with 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.
Azure AI Foundry SDK
Access Azure AI capabilities natively while coding in developer-friendly workspaces
Streamline development
Accelerate the end-to-end development lifecycle with an integrated library of SDKs and APIs.
Improve access to resources
Access cloud resources provisioned through Azure and consume models without switching platforms, using a single unified endpoint.
Experiment locally
Access Azure AI models and tools in GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio.
Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services (CAIDS).
Capabilities
Accelerate AI development
Mix and match foundation and open models with your diverse data sets to innovate and differentiate your AI solutions.
Orchestrate prompts, add retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and fine-tune models.
Transform your applications with agent-like workflows that respond to events and support reasoning, planning, and autonomous tasks.
Deploy apps, manage APIs and configurations, and continuously monitor for safety, quality, and token consumption in production.
Implement network isolation, identity and access controls, and data encryption for more secure and compliant AI operations.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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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RESOURCES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure AI Foundry is a trusted platform that empowers developers to drive innovation and shape the future with AI in a safe, secure, and responsible way.
- AI Foundry is intended for professional software developers, IT admins, cloud architects, and technical decision-makers who want to customize their AI applications.
- 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.
- Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry work together. Developers can start building their AI apps in Copilot Studio, a SaaS environment that allows them to prototype, develop, and deploy quickly, allowing them to realize business value. When developers are ready to customize and monitor their AI apps and APIs, they can migrate to Azure AI Foundry, a platform as a service (PaaS), or access Azure AI capabilities from their favorite developer workspaces like GitHub and Visual Studio to create custom functions, use source control, and integrate existing code from various languages.
- Yes, Azure AI Foundry is generally available as we continue to research and deploy the latest AI features so you can code the future of AI with ease.
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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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