Microsoft Foundry is a platform for building and running AI apps and agents. Microsoft describes it as an interoperable AI platform and says it was formerly Azure AI Studio. It is not a consumer chatbot; it is a workspace for teams building AI products on Azure.
What It Gives Teams
Foundry brings together models, agents, tools, data connections, evaluation, security, and observability. It is meant for teams that need to move from a prototype to a governed production AI system.
- models, tools, and agents in a unified portal
- AI app development and scaling on Azure
- quality, safety, cost, and governance controls
- connections to GitHub, Visual Studio, Copilot Studio, and Azure services
- enterprise scenarios where access, monitoring, and compliance matter
How To Position It
If Copilot Studio is the fast business-agent builder, Foundry is the engineering platform for AI products. In Microsoft AI, it sits next to Microsoft Azure and GitHub Copilot.