Girish Uppal Azure AI Foundry

What is Azure AI Foundry ?

 

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. Azure AI Foundry has tools you need to build, customize, host, execute, deploy and manage AI related applications

Azure AI Studio is now known as Azure AI Foundry portal

Azure AI foundry is designed for developers to build AI solutions end to end

URL to access: https://ai.azure.com/

Azure AI Foundry around 1800+ models (LLM), services and capabilities to build AI applications

Capabilities of Azure AI Foundry

  • Build generative AI applications on an enterprise-grade platform.
  • Explore, build, test, and deploy using cutting-edge AI tools and ML models, grounded in responsible AI practices.
  • Collaborate with a team for the full life-cycle of application development.
  • Explore wide variety of models, services and capabilities

The Model catalog contains Large Language model from these providers and it is not a comprehensive list:

  • Microsoft
  • Open AI
  • Meta
  • Mistral
  • Hugging face
  • NVIDIA  etc.

You can filter models by:

  • Vendor
  • Industry
  • Deployment
  • Inference tasks
  • Fine tuning tasks
  • Licenses

These are some of the Inference tasks that can be performed in Azure AI Foundry portal:

  • Chat completion
  • Summarization
  • Zero shot classification
  • Conversational
  • Embeddings
  • Text to image
  • Table question answering
  • Image classification
  • Text Classification
  • Text to text generation
  • Translation
  • Token classification
  • Question Answering
  • Text generation
  • Fill mask
  • Object detection
  • Image segmentation
  • Speech recognition

Sample Screen from Azure AI Foundry portal