From the course: Creating Generative AI Solutions and Copilots with Azure AI Foundry (Formerly Azure AI Studio)

What is Azure AI Foundry/Azure AI Studio?

- [Instructor] Azure AI Studio is a free platform that integrates different AI services and components into a single place. Some of the most significant components and features of Azure AI Studio are the following. The model catalog and the model benchmarks allow you to use and compare the quality of thousands of different large language models, both closed source and open source. It integrates the Azure AI services like vision, speech, language, document intelligence, and content safety without having to navigate to each specific studio. The playgrounds allowed you to rapidly use and test large language models, and in the chat playground, you can even ground the responses with your own data using the React technique. Azure AI Studio lets you deploy models from the catalog to real-time inferencing endpoints for use by client applications. You can also view the code required for different programming languages. You can also connect to external services and APIs and use those connections in your Copilot solutions. Finally, Azure AI Studio includes prompt flow, which is a set of tools that allows you to define flows that integrate models, prompts, and custom logic. One common question you may have is what's the difference between Azure AI Studio and Copilot Studio? Azure AI Studio, it's a full development environment designed for building and deploying both basic and advanced generative AI applications. It includes tools for developers and data scientists that build AI solutions. Also, it allows you to have more control over the models and the deployments. On the other hand, Copilot Studio is a low-code tool for building mainly chatbots and assistants. In addition, it integrates with the Microsoft productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. AI is changing so fast, so to stay up-to-date on Azure Azure AI Studio, you can visit its website at aiazure.com.

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