GPT-5.2 is now available in Microsoft Foundry.
Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
Access foundational and reasoning models, integrate powerful AI agents, customize via fine-tuning, and build securely with responsible AI at the core.
Deploy the latest reasoning series and foundational models. Integrate AI agents seamlessly into your apps.
Overview
Discover the benefits of Azure OpenAI
- Instantly access cutting-edge foundational models and powerful reasoning models from OpenAI. Accelerate your AI innovation journey by rapidly deploying models optimized for complex problem-solving, logical reasoning, and multimodal capabilities including real-time audio.
- Seamlessly integrate sophisticated AI agents into your applications. Automate complex business workflows, manage dynamic scenarios, and improve operational efficiency through smart task execution and adaptive agent behaviors.
- Become an expert in fine-tuning techniques to customize AI models precisely for your business needs. Enhance model accuracy, context-awareness, and relevance with streamlined fine-tuning tools.
- Implement robust security frameworks, manage harmful content, and maintain compliance through built-in tooling designed to safeguard your generative AI applications.
Use cases
Apply Azure OpenAI to a variety of use cases
Intelligent contact centers
Automate customer support, summarize conversations, and provide real-time coaching for agents, reducing post-call efforts by up to 50%.
Content generation
Create personalized marketing content, automate product descriptions, and power digital art creation using models like GPT-4 and DALL·E.
Data-driven insights
Analyze proprietary data for smarter decision-making, enhancing workflows in finance, healthcare, and retail.
Workflow automation
Automate routine tasks to optimize operations and supply chains with Azure OpenAI’s custom models.
Accessibility
Create equal opportunities and improvements to quality of life across diverse communities with assistive solutions such as real-time.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
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Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible Azure OpenAI deployment types and pricing
Discover three flexible deployment strategies—Standard,Provisioned, andBatch—to tailor your plan to your business needs, whether that includes small-scale experiments or deploying large, high-performance workloads.
Related products
Our products work better together
Use Azure OpenAI with other Azure AI products to build advanced and comprehensive solutions.
Foundry Agent Service
Design and customize enterprise-grade AI agents that automate complex business processes by completing specific tasks while keeping humans at the center.
Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
Trigger indexing and searching based on events occurring in other Azure services.
Azure AI Search
Ask questions and get comprehensive answers by extracting key information across multiple documents.
Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
Accelerate transformation of multimodal data into insights.
Azure Machine Learning
Empower rapid model deployment and seamless collaboration with prompt flow, driving accelerated time to value.
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CUSTOMER STORIES
Customers are innovating with Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
Azure OpenAI and GitHub Copilot join forces for e-commerce
Improving customer engagement and streamlining operations for one of France’s largest e-commerce platforms.
McKesson reimagines healthcare operations and scales with provisioned throughput units
With Azure OpenAI, McKesson automates manual processes and improves patient-facing operations.
Harvey revolutionizes legal work with reasoning models
Using Azure OpenAI, Harvey enables law firms to scale research and improve case efficiency.
NBA uses Azure OpenAI to enrich app experiences and insights
Azure AI powers advanced stats, summaries, and real-time insights for fans and internal teams.
Operation Smile enhances medical access using Azure AI and machine learning
Nonprofit uses AI to better predict surgery demand and improve patient care globally.
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Report
Customizing generative AI for unique value
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Portal
Microsoft Foundry
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Use cases
Customer inspiration
Explore how customers across industries are using Azure OpenAI to transform business operations and user experiences.
Documentation
Deep dive: Azure OpenAI
Get concepts and quickstarts in the Microsoft Learn center.
Training
Get skilled with Azure OpenAI
Learn how you can use Azure OpenAI to build solutions with AI models in Azure.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure OpenAI offers both pay-as-you-go pricing and pricing based on provisioned throughput units (PTUs). Pay-as-you-go pricing allows you to pay for the resources you consume, making it flexible for variable workloads. PTUs, on the other hand, offer a predictable pricing model where you reserve and deploy a specific amount of model processing capacity. This model is ideal for workloads with consistent or predictable usage patterns, providing stability and cost control.
- Criteria for evaluating and approving use cases include, but aren’t limited to:
- Responsible use of the service—using the models as they’re intended to be used.
- Capacity—ensuring that we’re able to adequately onboard and provide the service to customers.
- Azure OpenAI provides access to many cutting-edge models including GPT-3.5-Turbo, GPT-4 and DALL-E, Whisper, Babbage, and Davinci.
- There are several ways that Microsoft is ensuring responsible use, including:
- Tools and guidance: Azure OpenAI offers tools to moderate generated content and guidance for safely designing applications.
- Limited access: The service is currently available with limited access to ensure that responsible AI safeguards are working in practice.
- We guarantee that Azure OpenAI will be available at least 99.9% of the time.
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