Get to know the core Foundry solutions
Foundry includes specialized services for vision, language, documents, and search, plus Microsoft Foundry for orchestration and governance. Here’s what each does and why it matters: Azure Vision With Azure Vision, you can detect common objects in images, generate captions, descriptions, and tags based on image contents, and read text in images. Example: Automate visual inspections or extract text from scanned documents. Azure Language Azure Language helps organizations understand and work with text at scale. It can identify key information, gauge sentiment, and create summaries from large volumes of content. It also supports building conversational experiences and question-answering tools, making it easier to deliver fast, accurate responses to customers and employees. Example: Understand customer feedback or translate text into multiple languages. Azure Document IntelligenceWith Azure Document Intelligence, you can use pre-built or custom models to extract fields from complex documents such as invoices, receipts, and forms. Example: Automate invoice processing or contract review. Azure SearchAzure Search helps you find the right information quickly by turning your content into a searchable index. It uses AI to understand and organize data, making it easier to retrieve relevant insights. This capability is often used to connect enterprise data with generative AI, ensuring responses are accurate and grounded in trusted information. Example: Help employees retrieve policies or product details without digging through files. Microsoft FoundryActs as the orchestration and governance layer for generative AI and AI agents. It provides tools for model selection, safety, observability, and lifecycle management. Example: Coordinate workflows that combine multiple AI capabilities with compliance and monitoring. Business leaders often ask: Which Foundry tool should I use? The answer depends on your workflow. For example: Are you trying to automate document-heavy processes like invoice handling or contract review? Do you need to improve customer engagement with multilingual support or sentiment analysis? Or are you looking to orchestrate generative AI across multiple processes for marketing or operations? Connecting these needs to the right Foundry solution ensures you invest in technology that delivers measurable results.
AutoML - Featurisation option removed in UI update
Hi, When using the no-code AutoML UI to create models there was an option to exclude fields from the models training (the primary key, for example). However since the UI update this seems to have gone, and the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-use-automated-ml-for-ml-models?view=azureml-api-2 still gives guidance for the old UI. I'd like to know if there is another way I can achieve excluding fields from the training data that will still be required to pass to the model once deployed, using the UI? I assume it is still working via the SDK (am yet to check), but the UI offered a good introduction to modelling for users with low code knowledge. Old UI from documentation (note 'Included' slider): New UI missing the 'Included' slider: Thanks in advance. EDIT: I have had confirmation from MS support that the feature was removed in the upgrade to v2, and advised to featurise fully initially. Not ideal as there isn't a way to explicitly set/exclude the primary key now, but hopefully it never assigns it any importance.
Azure ML - Get Started - Create Compensation Prediction
Hi Guys, Super new here. Is there anyway to use Azure ML for free in an enterprise environment. I want to play around with some actual employee compensation data. I want to create a model, and I have no idea how to do this, that would allow an employee enter things like a persons specialty, years of experience, if they have specific training, if its a highly sought after postition. I can feed the model actual data with these data tagas but is there a way to play or create something for free..especially since I am new and do not know what I am doing. Any advice or help would be awesome. I would ultimately want to deploy this model to a powerapp that would sit in sharepoint. Thanks in advance for reading and responding.
Personal AI
How could Microsoft get it so wrong. I tried to use Azure and AI and its just matrix calculations. Open-AI is like a brute force training method, but at least its visualized. I just want a dog, a pet cat. An annoying robot that helps me with math and does my homework and that i can play games with. That will learn and grow with me and all you have is just a bunch of worthless databases like your CD collection, or vintage games. Bunch of comic book nerds with their libraries of books. Its like walking into a library and you don't know how to read. Here i was thinking that paperclip from word would have progressed into an annoying helper, but at least i have dancing girls hows **bleep** i can vibrate. Seriously can you not just make something simple, someone somewhere in that huge office must be someone who knows where the AI program is and can make a simple program and is like a "ferbe". Thats as helpful as the paperclip with a comprehensive help toolkit. Something that works like an operating system of something robotic i want to build. Could someone please help me make something simple, that can do basic reading comprehension so i can at least talk to it, and get it to read a book and answer questions. Maybe one that can learn maths and can 3d model things so i can visualize it. Or maybe something that can just learn by watching me and can recall something i need for reference. "i saw something on facebook" (pulls out phone to show person) "asks ai something vague" instantly pulls it up.
Searching pdf files using Natural Language
I'm new to all the Azure services and have been tasked with finding a solution to search a collection of pdf files using natural language queries. One use case would be to search resumés by saying (or entering) something like. "Find me all the candidates who have worked for XYZ company within the last 5 years". It looks like Azure Cognitive Search could be very useful for this. I've created a search service, and resource and data source etc and have successfully done a simple text search of my file. The resulting JSON looks like it did a good identifying all the various text concepts (names and places etc). I'm overwhelmed with all the various services that are available. If anyone can give a little newbie guidances as to which direction to go it would be greatly appreciated and would save me insane amounts of time running down rabbit holes looking for the correct services to use for my purposes. Thanks.Tech Minutes Video - Project Trove
This post is Authored by Trinh Duong, Christian Liensberger and Giampaolo Battaglia Office of the CTO Team & AI/Innovation at Microsoft We recently launched the Innovation Tech Minutes series, which are short, snackable informative tidbits from Microsoft researchers, developers and engineers all around the world on some of the latest and future technologies. In our latest episode, Christian Liensberger, Principal Program Manager and Advisor to Microsoft’s CTO shares new insights into Project Trove - a crowdsourcing marketplace where you can gather high-quality images for your AI models. Images are responsibly sourced from regular individuals and adhere to a rigid licensing and privacy framework, resulting in a more responsible data collection platform. In this Tech Minutes video, Christian shares the advantages of Trove, and also provides a walkthrough of Trove Web App from an AI Developer standpoint (selecting the right images for your model training), as well as showing how photo takers can upload their images through the Trove App on Android. Watch the Tech Minutes video Happy viewing & happy end of year! Trinh, Christian and Giampaolo
Jumping from Google's Teachable Machine to Azure. Help
I've been using Google's Teachable Machine for experiments for months, using two classes of images to train for recognition. I now need to switch the data source to tabular data (TM doesn't support this), and feel as though I've walked into Costco, Home Depot and Walgreens combined, with Azure. I've reviewed libraries of demos at studio.azureml.net and signed up for something else related to Azure, but, beyond uploading data, I have yet to find a way to replicate the workflow and simplicity of setup Teachable Machine offered. Any guidance is appreciated as (now knowing 9 computer programming languages) I'm not keen on learning yet another "ecosystem" over the course of X months.Azure ML Inference Cluster - AKS with Private IP
I have an AKS cluster in a VNET/Subnet. My AKS is linked to AzureML. I successfully deployed an Azure ML service to that AKS. However, I see that the azureml-fe service is responding to a public IP and not a private IP from my VNET/Subnet. How can I make it so my AzureML inference service is exposed with a private IP?
