Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search: The Future of Knowledge-Enhanced Agents

Posted on Sat 25 April 2026 in Azure Course AI-103T00-A • Tagged with Azure AI, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry IQ, AI Agents, RAG

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Foundry IQ is Microsoft’s managed knowledge layer for enterprise AI agents. It connects structured and unstructured data across Azure, SharePoint, OneLake, and the web, then uses agentic retrieval to help agents answer with grounded, citation-backed responses. The Microsoft Learn module teaches how RAG solves the “knowledge problem …


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Optimize Generative AI Model Performance with Microsoft Foundry

Posted on Thu 23 April 2026 in Azure Course AI-103T00-A • Tagged with MicrosoftFoundry, AzureAI, GenerativeAI, RAG, LLMs, FineTuning

TL;DR: The Microsoft Learn module on optimizing generative AI model performance is really about one big idea: don’t treat model quality, grounding, and fine-tuning as separate conversations. In Microsoft Foundry, you improve performance by combining prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning in the right order, then validating the result …


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