2Microsoft Foundry and Model Deployment

• 2.1Overview of Microsoft Foundry

  Understand Microsoft Foundry, the unified platform for building and operating AI solutions—its portal, projects, model catalog, connected Azure AI services, playground, and evaluation/monitoring—plus how the portal and SDK divide the work.

• 2.2Selecting and Deploying Models

  Understand how to choose a model from the catalog (capability, modality, context length, cost), the flow of deploying to get an endpoint + key, the basics of tokens and cost, and trying/evaluating in the playground.