Introducing Azure AI Foundry - Everything you need for AI development

Create agentic solutions quickly and efficiently with Azure AI Foundry. Choose the right models, ground your agents with knowledge, and seamlessly integrate AI into your development workflow—from early experimentation to production. Test, optimize, and deploy with built-in evaluation and management tools. See how to leverage the Azure AI Foundry SDK to code and orchestrate intelligent agents, monitor performance with tracing and assessments, and streamline DevOps with production-ready management.
Yina Arenas, from the Azure AI Foundry team, shares its extensive capabilities as a unified platform that supports you throughout the entire AI development lifecycle.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Create agentic solutions with Azure AI Foundry
00:20 - Model catalog in Azure AI Foundry
02:15 - Experiment in the Azure AI Foundry playground
03:10 - Create and customize agents
04:13 - Assess and improve agents
05:58 - Monitor and manage apps
06:50 - Create a multi-agentic app in code
09:26 - Create a Sender agent
10:39 - How to connect orchestration logic
11:25 - Watch agents work
12:26 - Wrap up
► Link References Get started with Azure AI Foundry at https://ai.azure.com
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