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Azure AI Foundry vs. Azure Databricks – A Unified Approach to Enterprise Intelligence

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anishekkamal
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Nov 05, 2025

Navigating the powerful synergy between Microsoft's specialized AI development platform and its robust data intelligence powerhouse.

Key Insights into Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks Complementary Powerhouses: Azure AI Foundry is purpose-built for generative AI application and agent development, focusing on model orchest...
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turagittech63
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Dec 17, 2025

Overall, some good information for comparison. You did yourself a disservice for the bits on Databricks AI that you left out. https://www.databricks.com/product/artificial-intelligence/ai-gateway. The comparison table is lacking, it might not be the only part lacking in complete information

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Jan 29, 2026

Appreciate the feedback. The comparison was framed around how customers evaluate platforms for building and operating production‑grade AI applications, not feature parity. Databricks’ AI capabilities (including AI Gateway) are evolving and valuable, particularly for data and ML workflows, but the post focused on platform‑level AI services for enterprise apps. A separate post will dive deeper into how Databricks AI fits within enterprise AI architectures.