Technology

AI Foundry

Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) is the unified, enterprise-grade platform for building, optimizing, and governing AI applications and intelligent agents at fleet-wide scale.

Consider Microsoft Foundry your AI app and agent factory: a single, interoperable platform that accelerates the journey from concept to production. It unifies agents, models, and tools under one management grouping, providing developers a streamlined hub to build faster and smarter. The platform offers the industry’s widest selection of models, including access to over 11,000 foundational models from providers like Anthropic, Grok, and Microsoft’s own GPT-5.1 series. For enterprise control, it delivers fleet-wide security and governance via a centralized control plane, leveraging rich Microsoft Defender and Entra integration to ensure compliance and iterative performance improvement.