Build and Manage AI Apps w/ Your Agent Factory
summary
Microsoft Foundry claims to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise SLAs and governance while already running in over 80,000 organizations. It ties Foundry IQ automated context engineering to agent memory and a hosted Agent Service with observability, guardrails, and multi-agent workflows; exposes 11,000 models via a unified API plus a model router selects best model in real time; offers 1,400+ connectors, fine-tuning, Foundry Local edge runtimes, and reports client results like 85% latency reduction and 15% quality gain.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Opening & Welcome to San Francisco
- 0:13AI Today: Unlocking Creativity and ROI
- 0:31Introducing Microsoft Foundry: The One-Stop AI Platform
- 0:53Foundry Stack Overview: Models, Agents, IQ, Tools
- 1:36Enterprise Readiness: Security, Compliance, and Control
- 2:35Real-World Adoption: 80,000 Organizations Using Foundry
- 3:00Framework for Today: Simple, Trusted, Powerful
- 3:11Foundry IQ: Automated Context Engineering & Agent Memory
- 4:06Foundry Tools: From Chatbots to Operators with 1,400+ Connectors
- 5:46Building Trustworthy AI: Controls, Observability, Security
- 7:13Introducing Foundry Control Plane for Governance
- 10:34Foundry Power: Model Choice, Router, and Fine-Tuning
- 12:25Foundry Local: AI at the Edge
- 12:37Agent Service: Multi-Agent Workflows & Hosted Agents
- 13:13Microsoft Agent Framework: Open Source & Enterprise Integration
- 15:22Amanda Silver: AI Toolkit for VS Code & Developer Workflow
- 17:27Enterprise Integration: Connectors, Logic Apps, and Governance
- 18:46The Future of Development: From Code to Intent
- 21:54Wrap-Up & Next Session Preview
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