Microsoft rebrands Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry [Video]

The toolkit for building generative AI applications has been packaged with new updates to form the Azure AI Foundry service.

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Microsoft is packaging its Azure AI Studio and other updates into a new service — Azure AI Foundry in response to enterprises’ need to develop, run, and manage generative AI applications.

Launched at the company’s annual Ignite conference, Azure AI Foundry is being marketed as a “unified application platform in the age of AI,” akin to the Azure AI Studio, which was released in November last year and made generally available in May this year.

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Azure AI Studio was developed and marketed by Microsoft as a generative AI application development platform with support for model filtering, model benchmarking, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, agent building, AI safety guardrails, and to an extent low-code development.

Azure AI Studio also has speech, vision, and language capabilities to help build apps …