Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. This foundation combines production-grade infrastructure with friendly interfaces, enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure.

Microsoft Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations. The platform provides streamlined management through unified Role-based access control (RBAC), networking, and policies under one Azure resource provider namespace.

Microsoft Foundry portal

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Latest Content

New content (09 September 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Mistral Document AI	End‑to‑end examples of Mistral Document AI within Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Mistral%20Document%20AI/Mistral%20Document%20AI%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb
🔥 Flux.1 Kontext Pro – Text & Image‑to‑Image	Image editing scenarios using Flux.1 Kontext Pro with Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Flux.1%20Kontext%20Pro/Image%20Edition%20with%20Flux.1%20Kontext%20Pro%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb
🔥 Flux1.1 Pro – Text‑to‑Image	High‑quality text‑to‑image generation using FLUX‑1.1‑pro in Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/blackforestslabs/flux1.1pro/Text%20to%20image%20with%20FLUX-1.1-pro%20in%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb

New content (26 August 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 GPT‑5 demo examples	GPT‑5 usage patterns and reference scenarios in Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt5/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20-%20gpt5.ipynb

New content (26 June 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Azure AI Agent Service – Bing integration (update)	Updated Bing search integration with Azure AI Agent Service.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/6%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Bing%20integration.ipynb
🔥 Azure AI Agent Service – Custom Bing integration	Customizable Bing‑based agents with Azure AI Agent Service.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/7%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Custom%20Bing%20agent.ipynb
🔥 Azure AI Agent Service – Connected agents	Patterns for orchestrating multiple connected agents.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/8%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Connected%20agents.ipynb
🔥 Grok with Azure AI Foundry	Integration scenarios using Grok models within Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Grok/Grok%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb
🔥 Phi‑4 reasoning with Azure AI Foundry	Advanced reasoning workflows using Phi‑4 in Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/phi-4%20reasoning/Phi-4%20reasoning%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb
🔥 Generative AI model tracing with Azure AI Foundry	Observability and tracing for generative AI workloads.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/tracing/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20tracing.ipynb
🔥 Agents evaluator with Azure AI Foundry	Evaluation of agentic workflows and behaviors.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Agents%20evaluators.ipynb
🔥 Azure OpenAI evaluators with Azure AI Foundry	Built‑in evaluators for Azure OpenAI workloads.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Azure%20OpenAI%20evaluators.ipynb
🔥 Evaluators with Azure AI Foundry	General evaluation flows for generative applications.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Evaluators.ipynb
🔥 Custom evaluators with Azure AI Foundry	Authoring and integrating custom evaluation logic.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Custom%20evaluators.ipynb
🔥 Retrieval evaluators with Azure AI Foundry	Quality evaluation for retrieval and RAG scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Retrieval%20evaluators.ipynb
🔥 Risk and safety evaluators with Azure AI Foundry	Risk, safety, and compliance‑oriented evaluation flows.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Observability/Risk%20and%20safety%20evaluators%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb

New content (02 June 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 SORA with Azure AI Foundry	End‑to‑end SORA integration scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/SORA%20with%20Azure%20AI%20Foundry.ipynb
🔥 Image‑to‑video with GPT‑4o and SORA	Image‑to‑video generation pipeline using GPT‑4o and SORA.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/Image%20to%20Video%20with%20gpt4o%20and%20SORA.ipynb
🔥 Video‑to‑video with GPT‑4o and SORA	Video transformation workflows combining GPT‑4o and SORA.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/Video%20to%20Video%20with%20gpt4o%20and%20SORA.ipynb
🔥 Agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search	Practical scenarios for agentic retrieval using Azure AI Search.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Agentic%20RAG/Introducing%20agentic%20retrieval%20in%20Azure%20AI%20Search.ipynb
🔥 Model router	Routing requests dynamically across multiple models.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Model%20router/Model%20router.ipynb

New content (21 May 2025)

AutoGen series

Item	Description	Link
🔥 AutoGen – Settings	Configuration patterns and best practices for AutoGen.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Introduction	Conceptual and architectural introduction to AutoGen.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Simple agent for financial analysis	Scenario using AutoGen agents for financial data analysis.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Azure AI Agent integration	Integration of AutoGen with Azure AI Agent Service.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Chatbot	Chat‑oriented agent implementation with AutoGen.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Enabling LLM‑powered agents to cooperate	Coordinating multiple agents collaboratively.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Multi‑agents	Multi‑agent orchestration patterns.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Multi‑agent with image generation	Multi‑agent workflows integrating image generation.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Human interaction	Human‑in‑the‑loop interactions within AutoGen flows.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen
🔥 AutoGen – Multimodal	Multimodal scenarios (text, image, etc.) with AutoGen.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen

New content (30 April 2025)

Azure AI Agent Service

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Single‑agent pattern	Basic, single‑agent implementation with Azure AI Agent Service.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/1%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Single%20agent.ipynb
🔥 Multi‑agent orchestration	Coordination of several agents for complex workflows.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/2%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Many%20agents.ipynb
🔥 File search (simple RAG)	Simple retrieval‑augmented generation over files.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/3%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20Service%20-%20File%20Search.ipynb
🔥 Code interpreter (EDA on a dataset)	Exploratory data analysis using the code interpreter tool.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/4%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Code%20interpreter.ipynb
🔥 User function (Azure Maps Weather Services)	Function‑calling integration with Azure Maps Weather Services.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/5%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Function%20calling.ipynb
🔥 Bing Search integration	Using Bing Search as a tool from agents.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20Agent%20Service/6%20Azure%20AI%20Agent%20service%20-%20Bing%20integration.ipynb

New content (29 April 2025)

GPT‑image‑1 on Azure AI Foundry

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Image generation	Text‑to‑image generation scenarios with gpt‑image‑1.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20gpt-image-1%20-%20Image%20generation.ipynb
🔥 Image editing	Image editing workflows based on existing images.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20gpt-image-1%20-%20Image%20edition.ipynb
🔥 Image composition	Composing multiple elements into a single generated image.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20gpt-image-1%20-%20Image%20Compose.ipynb
🔥 Image inpainting	Inpainting and localized image modification scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure%20AI%20Foundry%20gpt-image-1%20-%20Image%20Inpainting.ipynb

New content (18 April 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Mistral in Azure AI Foundry	General Mistral model usage in Azure AI Foundry.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/mistral/mistral.ipynb
🔥 Mistral OCR in Azure AI Foundry	OCR‑oriented scenarios using Mistral.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/mistral/mistral%20OCR.ipynb
🔥 o1 on images	Image‑centric reasoning and analysis using the o1 model.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o1/o1%20on%20images.ipynb
🔥 Stored completions with Azure AI Foundry	Using stored completions to optimize performance and cost.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Stored%20completions/Stored%20completions.ipynb
🔥 Responses API examples	Core usage patterns of the Responses API.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Responses%20API/Responses%20API%20examples.ipynb
🔥 Responses API web app	Web application example built on top of the Responses API.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Responses%20API/Responses%20API%20webapp.ipynb
🔥 GPT‑4.1 examples	Reference workflows for GPT‑4.1 in Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt41/gpt41.ipynb
🔥 gpt‑4o mini TTS	Text‑to‑speech scenarios with gpt‑4o mini.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt4ominiTTS/gpt4ominiTTS.ipynb
🔥 gpt‑4o mini transcription	Speech‑to‑text and transcription examples with gpt‑4o mini.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt4ominitranscribe/gpt-4o%20mini%20transcribe.ipynb
🔥 o4‑mini examples	Text‑focused o4‑mini usage scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o4mini/Azure%20OpenAI%20o4%20mini%20examples.ipynb
🔥 o4‑mini on images	Image‑based workflows with o4‑mini.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o4mini/o4%20mini%20examples%20on%20images.ipynb

New content (14 February 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 o1‑mini	Compact, cost‑efficient reasoning with o1‑mini.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o1/Azure%20OpenAI%20o1%20mini%20examples.ipynb
🔥 o3‑mini	Advanced lightweight reasoning with o3‑mini.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o3/Azure%20OpenAI%20o3%20mini%20examples.ipynb
🔥 GPT‑4o fine‑tuning (text)	Text classification with a fine‑tuned GPT‑4o model.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Gpt-4o-Text-FineTuning/Text%20classification%20with%20gpt-4o%20fine%20tuned%20model.ipynb

New content (06 February 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Azure OpenAI audio generation	Audio generation flows using GPT‑4o.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure%20OpenAI%20audio%20generation/Azure%20OpenAI%20Gpt4o%20Audio.ipynb

New content (23 January 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 Image classification with gpt‑4o	Baseline image classification with GPT‑4o.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/gpt-4o-image-classification
🔥 gpt‑4o model fine‑tuning for image classification	Fine‑tuning GPT‑4o for industrial image classification (NEU dataset).	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/gpt-4o-image-classification-finetuning

New content (16 January 2025)

Item	Description	Link
🔥 AI audio and video podcast generator	Automated podcast production with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Document Intelligence, and Azure AI Speech.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/AI%20podcast%20generation
🔥 GPT‑4o fine‑tuning for VQA	Visual question answering using a fine‑tuned GPT‑4o model.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Gpt-4o%20Fine%20tuning

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Azure OpenAI Demos – Thematic Overview

Area	Description	Link
Azure OpenAI basics	Introductory scenarios for getting started with Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Basics
Azure OpenAI quick demos	Short, workshop‑oriented samples.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Azure%20Open%20AI%20quick%20demos
Vector embeddings	Embeddings for text, images, and audio.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Embeddings
Embeddings with pandas	Embedding patterns over pandas data frames.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Embeddings%20with%20Pandas
Azure Computer Vision and LangChain	Using Azure Computer Vision with LangChain.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Azure%20Computer%20Vision%20and%20Langchain
Azure Cognitive Search – vector search & JSON	Vector search and JSON document analysis with Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Azure%20Cognitive%20Search%20Vector%20Search%20Code%20Sample%20with%20Azure%20OpenAI
Python code analysis	Analysis of Python notebooks with LangChain and Azure Cognitive Search.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Code%20analysis%20with%20Langchain%20%2B%20Azure%20OpenAI%20%2B%20Azure%20Cognitive%20Search%20(vector%20store)
PDF document analysis	PDF analysis workflows using LangChain, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Cognitive Search.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Lanchain%20with%20Azure%20Open%20AI%20(PDF%20files)%20and%20Azure%20Cognitive%20Search
LLaMA	Introductory LLaMA‑based scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Llama
DALL‑E 2 image generation	Image generation with DALL‑E 2 in Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Artificial%20images%20with%20Dall-e%202
Python function integration	Function calling and Python function orchestration.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Python%20functions%20integration
Video Indexer analysis	Analysing Azure Video Indexer transcripts with Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Video%20Indexer%20analysis
Email response generation	Intelligent reply generation for email content.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Email%20response%20generation
Wikification	Entity‑centric enrichment and wikification flows.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Wikification
Resume analysis	CV/resume parsing, extraction, and scoring.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Resume%20analysis
Text analytics & sentiment	Text analytics and sentiment analysis with Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Text%20analytics%20with%20Azure%20Open%20AI
Prompt Flow model invocation	Calling deployed Prompt Flow models from code.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/PromptFlow%20model%20deployment
From text to emojis	Emoji‑based categorisation of text.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/From%20text%20to%20emoji
Code optimization and conversion	Refactoring, optimisation, and language conversion of code.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Code%20Optimization%20and%20conversion
PowerPoint generation	Automatic PowerPoint generation with Azure OpenAI.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/PowerPoint%20generation%20with%20Azure%20Open%20AI
FHIR analysis	Healthcare FHIR data analysis scenarios.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/FHIR%20analysis
Utilities	Reusable utilities for Azure OpenAI projects.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Utilities
Meeting audio analysis	End‑to‑end flow for meeting audio analysis with Azure OpenAI and Azure Speech.	https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Analyse%20audio%20meeting%20notes%20with%20Azure%20Open%20AI%20and%20Azure%20Speech%20Services

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Documentation

Item	Description	Link
Microsoft Foundry – product page	Product overview, capabilities, and pricing.	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/#AI-Foundry-Hero
What is Microsoft Foundry?	Conceptual documentation and key architectural concepts.	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/what-is-azure-ai-foundry

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Author

Field	Details
Name	Serge Retkowsky
Created	05 September 2023
Last updated	24 November 2025
Email	serge.retkowsky@microsoft.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/in/serger/
Medium publications	https://medium.com/@sergems18/