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Image-recognition service for building custom image classification and object-detection models; distinct from the general-purpose Azure AI Vision service.

Embeddable reading-comprehension tool that improves text readability for users of all ages and abilities.

Extracts insights from video and audio — transcription, face/object detection, sentiment, topics — via API.

Multimodal Azure AI service that extracts structured insights from unstructured content (documents, images, audio, video) into custom-defined schemas.

Extracts text, structure and key-value pairs from documents (invoices, receipts, forms, ID cards) via prebuilt and custom models.

NLP service for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, summarization, question answering and conversational language understanding.

End-to-end platform for building, training, deploying and managing machine-learning models at enterprise scale.

Hosted access to OpenAI's GPT, embedding and image models with Azure enterprise security, networking and compliance, under Microsoft Foundry's current branding.

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as an Azure API service.

Real-time and batch text translation API supporting 100+ languages.

Image analysis, OCR, spatial analysis and face detection as an Azure API service.

Detects harmful text/image content (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) for generative-AI applications, billed per text/image record analyzed.

Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

Context-engineering platform giving AI agents agentic retrieval across enterprise data sources (SharePoint, Blob Storage, the web) with permission-aware security.

Model catalog (11,000+ models from Azure, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Hugging Face and others) with managed-compute and serverless per-token deployment.

AI assistant for clinicians that combines ambient conversation capture, clinical documentation and voice-driven EHR/order workflows into one product.

Evaluation, production monitoring and distributed tracing for generative-AI applications, billed by consumption per the Foundry observability pricing page.

Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

Azure's platform for building, evaluating and deploying model-based applications and agents.

Hosted inference service for open-source and commercial LLMs (OpenAI, Qwen, Llama, Kimi, Phi, DeepSeek, Z.AI) without managing infrastructure.

Tracing, evaluation and production monitoring for LLM and agent applications, capturing each call so prompts and outputs can be scored over time.

Experiment tracking for model training runs, recording hyperparameters, metrics and artifacts so runs can be compared, swept and reproduced.

Curated central repository providing versioning, aliases, lineage tracking and governance for models and datasets across the ML lifecycle.

Managed reinforcement-learning fine-tuning service for LLMs on CoreWeave's managed GPU cluster, billed per-token for rollouts with automatic scale-to-zero.

Serverless supervised fine-tuning for LLMs on CoreWeave's managed GPU cluster, run alongside Serverless RL in a unified workflow via the Agent Reinforcement Trainer (ART) API.