At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Azure AI Foundry, a new offering that brings together a number of Microsoft's existing AI services for enterprises under a single umbrella.

It’s a brand-new offering announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024 that’s meant to simplify the development and management of AI applications. It does this by “unifying the AI toolchain” within a new Azure AI Foundry software development kit that brings Azure AI capabilities to familiar developer tools such as GitHub and Visual Studio.

The company said that its Azure AI search, now found in Azure AI Foundry, including enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, which Microsoft said will improve results by 12.5 percent. It will also be increasing its GitHub integration search to provide users with better results.