Azure OpenAI plus several Foundry Tools reachable through a single key and endpoint in one resource; a single-service resource, by comparison, covers only one tool.
Also called Microsoft Foundry resource.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure OpenAI
Use of OpenAI models in Azure, including GPT, o-series, embeddings, image and Whisper, through either a Foundry resource or an Azure OpenAI resource. Content Understanding isn't available from a standalone Azure OpenAI resource.
- Foundry Tools
Microsoft's collection of AI APIs that can be used ready-made or customised, spanning areas such as Vision, Speech, Language, Document Intelligence, Content Safety and Content Understanding.
- Index field attributes
Settings applied to each field in an Azure AI Search index:
searchablefor full text,retrievableto return it,filterablefor exact-match$filter,sortable,facetablefor counts, andkeyfor the unique document ID. - Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).