Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. This foundation combines production-grade infrastructure with friendly interfaces, enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure.
Microsoft Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations. The platform provides streamlined management through unified Role-based access control (RBAC), networking, and policies under one Azure resource provider namespace.
Latest Content
New content (27 May 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Prompt Agent | Prompt Agent quickstart | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/Prompt Agent/Foundry Prompt Agents.ipynb |
New content (27 April 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 gpt-image-2 | gpt-image-2 | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/tree/main/gpt-image-2 |
New content (19 February 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
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| 🔥 mistral-document-ai-2512 | mistral-document-ai-2512 | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/tree/main/mistral-document-ai-2512 |
New content (16 February 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Image Anomaly Detection with Cohere Embed 4 on Azure AI Foundry | Image Anomaly Detection | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/anomaly_detection_cohere_embed4/Image Anomaly Detection with Cohere Embed 4 on Azure AI Foundry.ipynb |
| 🔥 Auto-Tagging Images with Cohere Embed 4 on Microsoft Foundry | Auto tagging | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/auto_tagging_cohere/auto_tagging_cohere_embed4_azure.ipynb |
New content (06 February 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
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| 🔥 gpt-5.2 models | gpt-5.2 examples | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/gpt-5.2/gpt52_models.ipynb |
New content (02 February 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Azure Prices Fetcher | Azure API pricing. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/Pricing/azure_prices_fetcher.ipynb |
New content (27 January 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
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| 🔥 gpt-realtime-mini | gpt-realtime-mini with Microsoft Foundry. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/gpt-realtime-mini/gpt_realtime_mini_azure.ipynb |
New content (16 January 2026)
| Item | Description | Link |
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| 🔥 Azure AI Agent MCP | Azure AI Agent with MCP connexion. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-AIGEN-demos/blob/main/MCP/MCP_Microsoft_Learn_Chatbot.ipynb |
New content (09 September 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Mistral Document AI | End‑to‑end examples of Mistral Document AI within Azure AI Foundry. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Mistral Document AI/Mistral Document AI with Azure AI Foundry.ipynb |
| 🔥 Flux.1 Kontext Pro – Text & Image‑to‑Image | Image editing scenarios using Flux.1 Kontext Pro with Azure AI Foundry. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Flux.1 Kontext Pro/Image Edition with Flux.1 Kontext Pro with Azure AI Foundry.ipynb |
| 🔥 Flux1.1 Pro – Text‑to‑Image | High‑quality text‑to‑image generation using FLUX‑1.1‑pro in Azure AI Foundry. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/blackforestslabs/flux1.1pro/Text to image with FLUX-1.1-pro in Azure AI Foundry.ipynb |
New content (26 August 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 GPT‑5 demo examples | GPT‑5 usage patterns and reference scenarios in Azure AI Foundry. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt5/Azure AI Foundry - gpt5.ipynb |
New content (26 June 2025)
New content (02 June 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 SORA with Azure AI Foundry | End‑to‑end SORA integration scenarios. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/SORA with Azure AI Foundry.ipynb |
| 🔥 Image‑to‑video with GPT‑4o and SORA | Image‑to‑video generation pipeline using GPT‑4o and SORA. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/Image to Video with gpt4o and SORA.ipynb |
| 🔥 Video‑to‑video with GPT‑4o and SORA | Video transformation workflows combining GPT‑4o and SORA. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/sora/Video to Video with gpt4o and SORA.ipynb |
| 🔥 Agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search | Practical scenarios for agentic retrieval using Azure AI Search. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Agentic RAG/Introducing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search.ipynb |
| 🔥 Model router | Routing requests dynamically across multiple models. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Model router/Model router.ipynb |
New content (21 May 2025)
AutoGen series
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 AutoGen – Settings | Configuration patterns and best practices for AutoGen. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Introduction | Conceptual and architectural introduction to AutoGen. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Simple agent for financial analysis | Scenario using AutoGen agents for financial data analysis. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Azure AI Agent integration | Integration of AutoGen with Azure AI Agent Service. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Chatbot | Chat‑oriented agent implementation with AutoGen. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Enabling LLM‑powered agents to cooperate | Coordinating multiple agents collaboratively. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Multi‑agents | Multi‑agent orchestration patterns. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Multi‑agent with image generation | Multi‑agent workflows integrating image generation. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Human interaction | Human‑in‑the‑loop interactions within AutoGen flows. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
| 🔥 AutoGen – Multimodal | Multimodal scenarios (text, image, etc.) with AutoGen. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Autogen |
New content (30 April 2025)
Azure AI Agent Service
New content (29 April 2025)
GPT‑image‑1 on Azure AI Foundry
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Image generation | Text‑to‑image generation scenarios with gpt‑image‑1. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure AI Foundry gpt-image-1 - Image generation.ipynb |
| 🔥 Image editing | Image editing workflows based on existing images. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure AI Foundry gpt-image-1 - Image edition.ipynb |
| 🔥 Image composition | Composing multiple elements into a single generated image. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure AI Foundry gpt-image-1 - Image Compose.ipynb |
| 🔥 Image inpainting | Inpainting and localized image modification scenarios. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/gpt-image-1/Azure AI Foundry gpt-image-1 - Image Inpainting.ipynb |
New content (18 April 2025)
New content (14 February 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 o1‑mini | Compact, cost‑efficient reasoning with o1‑mini. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o1/Azure OpenAI o1 mini examples.ipynb |
| 🔥 o3‑mini | Advanced lightweight reasoning with o3‑mini. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/o3/Azure OpenAI o3 mini examples.ipynb |
| 🔥 GPT‑4o fine‑tuning (text) | Text classification with a fine‑tuned GPT‑4o model. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Gpt-4o-Text-FineTuning/Text classification with gpt-4o fine tuned model.ipynb |
New content (06 February 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Azure OpenAI audio generation | Audio generation flows using GPT‑4o. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/blob/main/Azure OpenAI audio generation/Azure OpenAI Gpt4o Audio.ipynb |
New content (23 January 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 Image classification with gpt‑4o | Baseline image classification with GPT‑4o. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/gpt-4o-image-classification |
| 🔥 gpt‑4o model fine‑tuning for image classification | Fine‑tuning GPT‑4o for industrial image classification (NEU dataset). | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/gpt-4o-image-classification-finetuning |
New content (16 January 2025)
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 AI audio and video podcast generator | Automated podcast production with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Document Intelligence, and Azure AI Speech. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/AI podcast generation |
| 🔥 GPT‑4o fine‑tuning for VQA | Visual question answering using a fine‑tuned GPT‑4o model. | https://github.com/retkowsky/Azure-OpenAI-demos/tree/main/Gpt-4o Fine tuning |
Azure OpenAI Demos – Thematic Overview
Documentation
| Item | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry – product page | Product overview, capabilities, and pricing. | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/#AI-Foundry-Hero |
| What is Microsoft Foundry? | Conceptual documentation and key architectural concepts. | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/what-is-azure-ai-foundry |
Author
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Serge Retkowsky |
| Created | 05 September 2023 |
| Last updated | 27 May 2026 |
| serge.retkowsky@microsoft.com | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/serger/ | |
| Medium publications | https://medium.com/@sergems18/ |


