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Using Azure AI Foundry SDK for your AI apps and agents

Using Azure AI Foundry SDK for your AI apps and agents

Design, customize and manage your own custom applications with Azure AI Foundry right from your code. With Azure AI Foundry, leverage over 1,800 models, seamlessly integrating them into your coding environment to create agents and tailored app experiences. Utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation and vector search to enrich responses with contextual information, as well with built-in services to incorporate cognitive skills such as language, vision, and safety detection.

Dan Taylor, Principal Product Architect for Azure AI Foundry SDK, also shares how to streamline your development process with tools for orchestration and monitoring. Use templates to simplify resource deployment and run evaluations against large datasets to optimize performance. With Application Insights, gain visibility into your app's metrics, enabling data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.

► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Manage AI apps in Azure AI Foundry
00:27 - What's in the Azure AI Foundry
01:37 - Ground apps using your own data
03:03 - Retrieval Augmented Generation
03:48 - Using vector search
04:17 - Set up your coding environment
06:11 - How to build AI apps in code
07:16 - Using traces
07:45 - Evaluating performance against large data sets
08:19 - Options for monitoring your AI apps
08:58 - Wrap up

► Link References Find the Azure AI Foundry at https://ai.azure.com

Check out our code samples at https://aka.ms/AIAppTemplates

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