This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI Foundry and other Azure AI services. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST based APIs and SDKs to build generative AI, computer vision, language analysis, and information extraction solutions on Azure

Module 1: Develop generative AI apps in Azure

• Plan and prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure

• Choose and deploy models from the model catalog in Azure AI Foundry portal

• Develop an AI app with the Azure AI Foundry SDK

• Develop a RAG-based solution with your own data using Azure AI Foundry

• Fine-tune a language model with Azure AI Foundry

• Implement a responsible generative AI solution in Azure AI Foundry

Labs:

1. Choose and deploy a language model

2. Create a generative AI chat app

3. Create a generative AI app that uses your own data

4. Apply content filters to prevent the output of harmful content

5. Evaluate generative AI model performance

Module 2: Develop AI agents on Azure

• Get started with AI agent development on Azure

• Develop an AI agent with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

• Integrate custom tools into your agent

• Develop a multi-agent solution with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

• Integrate MCP Tools with Azure AI Agents

• Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework

• Orchestrate a multi-agent solution using the Microsoft Agent Framework

Labs:

1. Explore AI Agent development

2. Develop an AI agent

3. Develop a multi-agent solution with Azure AI Foundry

4. Connect AI Agents to a remote MCP server

5. Develop an Azure AI agent with the Semantic Kernel SDK

Module 3: Develop natural language solutions in Azure

• Analyze text with Azure AI Language

• Create question answering solutions with Azure AI Language

• Build a conversational language understanding model

• Create custom text classification solutions

• Custom named entity recognition

• Translate text with Azure AI Translator service

• Create speech-enabled apps with Azure AI services

• Translate speech with the Azure AI Speech service

• Develop an audio-enabled generative AI application

• Develop an Azure AI Voice Live agent

Labs:

1. Analyze text

2. Create a question answering solution

3. Custom text classification

4. Recognize and synthesize speech

5. Develop an audio-enabled chat app

Module 4: Develop computer vision solutions in Azure

• Analyze images

• Read text in images

• Detect, analyze, and recognize faces

• Classify images

• Detect objects in images

• Analyze video

• Develop a vision-enabled generative AI application

Labs:

1. Analyze images

2. Read text in images

3. Detect and analyze faces

4. Classify images

5. Develop a vision-enabled chat app

6. Generate images with AI

Module 5: Develop AI information extraction solutions in Azure

• Create a multimodal analysis solution with Azure AI Content Understanding

• Create an Azure AI Content Understanding client application

• Use prebuilt Document intelligence models

• Extract data from forms with Azure Document intelligence

• Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI Search

Labs:

1. Extract information from multimodal content

2. Develop a Content Understanding client application

3. Analyze forms with prebuilt Azure AI Document Intelligence models

4. Analyze forms with custom Azure AI Document Intelligence

models

5. Create a knowledge mining solution