The toolkit for building generative AI applications has been packaged with new updates to form the Azure AI Foundry service.

Microsoft is packaging its Azure AI Studio and other updates into a new service -- Azure AI Foundry in response to enterprises' need to develop, run, and manage generative AI applications.

Launched at the company's annual Ignite conference, Azure AI Foundry is being marketed as a "unified application platform in the age of AI," akin to the Azure AI Studio, which was released in November last year and made generally available in May this year.

Azure AI Studio was developed and marketed by Microsoft as a generative AI application development platform with support for model filtering, model benchmarking, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, agent building, AI safety guardrails, and to an extent low-code development.