Exploring Azure OpenAI Service

Azure OpenAI is a cloud-based AI service that provides access to a variety of pre-trained models. These models can be easily adapted to tasks such as content generation, chat, completion, assistants, image understanding and generation, video analysis, natural language to code, and more. There are multiple models available for developers to consume using REST APIs, Python SDKs, or web interfaces.

Azure OpenAI Service in the Azure AI Foundry portal is a web-based interface that allows developers to interact with the models, deploy them, and monitor their performance. It provides a simple and intuitive way to interact with the models and get results in real-time. Organizations working on building generative AI products can leverage Azure OpenAI Service to quickly prototype and deploy models before integrating them into their applications.

In this hands-on lab, you will be introduced to Azure OpenAI Models and Deployments. You will learn how to interact with Azure OpenAI Service and understand the Chat playground feature.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

• Understand Azure OpenAI Models
• Explore Azure OpenAI Deployments
• Interact with Azure OpenAI Service
• Understand the Chat playground in Azure OpenAI Service

Intended audience

• Candidates for AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification
• AI Engineers
• Machine Learning Engineers
• Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Azure OpenAI

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• Understanding the Azure OpenAI Service

Updates

• February 26th, 2025 - Emphasized more of the capabilities of the chat playground and removed the completion playground instructions
• January 16th, 2025 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI