Understand generative AI

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Generative AI describes a category of capabilities within AI that create original content. People typically interact with generative AI that has been built into chat applications. Generative AI applications take in natural language input, and return appropriate responses in a variety of formats including natural language, image, code, and audio.

Generative AI in Microsoft Azure

In Microsoft Azure, you can use the Azure OpenAI service to build generative AI solutions. Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft's cloud solution for deploying, customizing, and hosting generative AI models. It brings together the best of OpenAI's cutting edge models and APIs with the security and scalability of the Azure cloud platform.

Azure OpenAI supports many foundation model choices that can serve different needs. The service features are available for use and testing with Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft's platform for designing enterprise-grade AI solutions. You can use the Azure AI Foundry portal to manage, develop, and customize generative AI models.

A screenshot of the the Azure AI Foundry portal landing page before sign-in. A screenshot of the home page of the Azure AI Foundry portal interface which includes quick-start buttons.