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Azure OpenAI & Copilot

Contents

• Azure OpenAI Overview
• LLM Frameworks
• Prompt Tooling
• Agent Frameworks
• Deep Learning
• Risk & LLMOps
• Data Processing
• Developer Tooling
• Microsoft Copilot Products
• Agent Development
• Copilot Development
• Azure AI Search
• Azure AI Services
• Microsoft Research
• Azure OpenAI Application
• Azure OpenAI Accelerator
• Azure OpenAI Samples
• Use Case & Architecture References

Azure OpenAI Overview

• Abuse Monitoring - ✍️Data handling and retention policy for abuse detection in Azure OpenAI.
• Azure OpenAI Models - ✍️Catalog of foundation and reasoning models available from Azure OpenAI.
• OpenAI Models - ✍️Catalog of foundation and reasoning models available from OpenAI.
• What is Azure OpenAI Service? - ✍️Overview of Azure-hosted OpenAI capabilities, security and integration features.

LLM Frameworks

• 🏛️Artificial Intelligence Controller Interface (AICI) - Secure sandboxed controllers for structured real-time LLM output control. (Sep 2023)
• Azure ML Prompt Flow - ✍️Visual designer for prompt orchestration and evaluation supporting Jinja templates. (Jun 2023)
• 🏛️Kernel Memory - Service and plugins for scalable ingestion, hybrid embedding, and memory pipelines. (Jul 2023)
• 🏛️Microsoft Agent Framework - Unified SDK (Semantic Kernel & AutoGen), Graph-based Workflows, DevUI, Built-in connectors, MCP + A2A + OpenAPI (Apr 2025)
• 🏛️Semantic Kernel - SDK for orchestrating AI services, functions, memory, and planners across languages. (Feb 2023)

Prompt Tooling

• 🏛️GenAIScript - JavaScript framework to orchestrate LLM calls, tools, and data in unified scripts. (Aug 2023)
• 🏛️guidance - DSL for structured prompting and controlled generation with chain-of-thought patterns. (Nov 2022)
• 🏛️LLMLingua - Prompt and KV-cache compression achieving substantial token reduction with minimal quality loss. (Jul 2023)
• 🏛️LMOps - Toolkit for optimizing and evaluating prompt quality across multimodal scenarios. (Dec 2022)
• 🏛️Prompt Engine - Utilities for systematic prompt authoring and experimentation (Python variant available). (Jun 2022)
• 🏛️PromptBench - Unified framework for large language model prompt evaluation. (Jun 2023)
• 🏛️Prompty - Template language for prompt definition, execution metadata, and evaluation integration. (Apr 2024)
• 🏛️Promptions - Promptions ("Prompt" plus "options"). Ephemeral UI for prompt refinement — a flexible dynamic prompt middleware. (Jul 2025)
• 🏛️SAMMO - Framework for automated prompt optimization through search and evaluation loops. (Apr 2024)
• 🏛️TypeChat - Schema-driven natural language interfaces using strongly typed APIs.

Agent Frameworks

• 🏛️AGDebugger - Visual tool for AutoGen-based multi-agent debugging. (Jan 2025)
• 🏛️Agent Lightning - Train and optimize agents (including RL, prompt‑optimization, multi‑agent workflows) (Jun 2025)
• 🏛️agent-governance-toolkit - Policy enforcement, identity, and sandboxing for secure enterprise agents. (Mar 2026)
• AIOpsLab - ✍️Research-driven AI agents for cloud incident analysis and root cause automation.
• 🏛️Autogen - Customizable multi-agent conversation and tool orchestration framework (community AG2 and Microsoft variants). (Mar 2023)
• Copilot SDK - Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services (Jan 2026)
• 🏛️ExACT - Adaptive retrieval and planning using interaction memory and Monte Carlo Tree Search. (Dec 2024)
• 🏛️EvalsforAgentsInterop - Evaluates LLM-powered productivity agents through realistic scenario simulations. (Nov 2025)
• 🏛️JARVIS - Bridge connecting LLMs with specialized AI models for composite task execution. (Mar 2023)
• 🏛️Magentic-Marketplace - Market simulation using agents. (27 Oct 2025) 📑
• Magentic-One - ✍️Generalist multi-agent system for complex multi-step automation.
• 🏛️OmniParser - Vision-based GUI parsing for screen-grounded agent control. (Sep 2024)
• 🏛️qlib - Quantitative finance platform integrating supervised, temporal, and reinforcement modeling. (Aug 2020)
• 🏛️RD-Agent - Open-source R&D automation for structured experimentation workflows. (Apr 2024)
• 🏛️Semantic Workbench - Development environment for intelligent multi-agent scenario design and debugging. (Aug 2024)
• 🏛️TaskWeaver - Code-first natural language to executable workflow translation with rich data planning. (Sep 2023)
• 🏛️TinyTroupe - Multi-agent persona simulation for scenario exploration and insight generation. (Mar 2024)
• 🏛️UFO - UI-centric Windows interaction agent for system-level task automation. (Mar 2024)
• 🏬Vanilla AI Agents - Minimal agent patterns without heavy framework abstractions. (Dec 2024)
• 🏛️Windows Agent Arena - Benchmarking and evaluation platform for multimodal Windows desktop agents. (Sep 2024)

Deep Learning

• 🏛️BitNet - Inference framework for ultra-low precision (1-bit) large language models. (Aug 2024)
• 🏛️DeepSpeed - Distributed training and inference optimization library featuring ZeRO optimizations. (May 2020)
• 🏛️FLAML - Lightweight automation for model selection, tuning, and economical experimentation. (Dec 2020)
• 🏛️PixelCraft - High-fidelity visual reasoning on structured images. (Apr 2025)
• 🏛️Tutel - Optimized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) library with FP8/NVFP4/MXFP4 support. (Aug 2021)
• 🏛️UniLM (Foundation Models) - Collection of large-scale pretrained architectures for multimodal and language tasks. (Mar 2020)

Risk & LLMOps

• 🏛️AI Central - Control plane for authenticated, resilient access to multiple OpenAI endpoints. (Oct 2023)
• Azure AI Evaluation SDK - ✍️Evaluation tooling for generative AI quality and safety metrics. (Oct 2024)
• 🌐PyRIT - Risk identification toolkit targeting robustness, safety, and adversarial prompt detection. (Dec 2023)

Data Processing

• Azure HorizonDB - ✍️New PostgreSQL service with advanced DiskANN vector indexing and large-scale replication. (19 Nov 2025)
• 🏛️DiskANN - Graph-based indices for scalable and fast approximate nearest neighbor search. (Jun 2020)
• 🏛️markitdown - Conversion utility for office and structured documents to Markdown. (14 Nov 2024)
• Microsoft Fabric - ✍️Unified platform combining data integration, engineering, warehousing, and BI. (May 2023)
• 🏛️NLWeb - Conversational interfaces for web data with MCP, Schema.org, and RSS support. (Apr 2025)
• 🏛️Presidio - Context-aware, pluggable PII detection and de-identification for text and images. (Oct 2019)
• 🏛️Presidio Research - Data science tools for developing and evaluating Presidio PII recognizers. (Jan 2020)

Developer Tooling

• 🏛️agent-skills - 131 skills, MCP configs, and agents for Azure SDK and AI Foundry development. (Jan 2026)
• 🏛️AI Toolkit for VS Code - VS Code extension integrating local and cloud AI workflows. (Dec 2023)
• AIShell - Interactive PowerShell shell integrating AI-assisted command workflows. (Apr 2023)
• 🏛️apm - Dependency manager for AI agents — declare skills, prompts, and tools in apm.yml. (Sep 2025)
• 🏛️Azure Communication Services WebChat Adapter - Bot Framework WebChat adapter for Azure Communication Services Chat. (Dec 2024)
• Claude Code + MS Foundry - ✍️Claude Code + Microsoft Foundry enterprise setup on Azure. (Jan 2026)
• Cosmos DB Agent Kit - A collection of skills for AI coding agents working with Azure Cosmos DB. (Jan 2026)
• 🏛️Data Formulator - Iterative AI-assisted creation and transformation of data visualizations. (18 Sep 2023)
• dotnet/skills - Skill packs and templates for .NET-focused AI coding and agent workflows. (Feb 2026)
• ExcelMcp - MCP Server for Microsoft Excel - MCP server that lets AI assistants (e.g. via GitHub Copilot or other LLM-based agents) control Microsoft Excel — automate Power Query, VBA, DAX, formatting, and more. (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️Foundry-Local - Local-first dev setup for Microsoft Foundry projects. (Mar 2025)
• 🏛️GitHub Copilot Chat for VS Code - In-editor contextual multi-turn AI assistance. (June 2025)
• GitHub Copilot CLI - AI-powered coding assistance in your terminal.
• github-copilot-office - GitHub Copilot add-in for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. (Jan 2026)
• 🏛️hve-core - Hypervelocity Engineering assets: agents, instructions, prompts, and Copilot workflows. (Mar 2026)
• 🏛️MCP Gateway - Reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers with Kubernetes lifecycle support. (May 2025)
• 🏛️Microsoft MCP - Catalog of official Microsoft MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementations for AI data access and tool integration. (Apr 2025)
• Playwright CLI for AI Agents - ✍️Browser automation CLI with lower token cost than MCP browser sessions. (Feb 2026)
• 🏛️Power BI Modeling MCP Server - Power BI semantic modeling capabilities to your AI agents through a local MCP server. (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️power-platform-skills - Skill marketplace for Claude Code, Copilot, Power Apps, and Power Pages. (Mar 2026)
• 🏛️SWE-bench-Live - Evaluating your AI system on latest software engineering tasks. (NeurIPS 2025 D&B). (Mar 2025)
• 🏛️vscode-copilotstudio - VS Code extension for authoring and syncing Copilot Studio agents. (Mar 2025)
• 🏛️wassette - Runs WebAssembly Components as MCP tools with Wasmtime sandbox isolation. (Jul 2025)

Microsoft Copilot Products

• Agent 365 - ✍️Control plane for AI agents (registry, access control, visualization, interoperability, security). (18 Nov 2025)
• Azure SRE Agent - ✍️A cloud agent service. Site reliability engineering (SRE) covers Usage, Incident, and Performance Monitoring. (19 May 2025)
• 🏛️Azure SRE Agent GitHub Repository - Official sample of Azure SRE Agent. (September 2025)
• Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents - ✍️In-chat purchases and automated brand interactions. (6 Jan 2026)
• Copilot Health - ✍️Health-focused Copilot combining records, wearables, and proactive guidance. (Mar 2026)
• Clarity Copilot - ✍️Analytics insights assistant for session telemetry. (March 2023)
• Copilot Pages - ✍️Persistent collaborative canvas in Copilot chat. (16 Sep 2024)
• Copilot Pro - ✍️Premium Copilot features, model priority, and M365 integration. (Jan 2024)
• Copilot Scenario Library - ✍️Examples of Copilot business use cases.
• Copilot Tasks - ✍️Copilot executes delegated tasks like booking, research, and purchasing. (Feb 2026)
• Copilot Usage Report 2025 - ✍️Health queries dominate mobile use, programming peaks on weekdays and gaming on weekends, and February sees a Valentine's Day spike in relationship and personal growth conversations. (10 Dec 2025)
• Copilot Vision - ✍️Edge experience for browsing with on-page visual grounding. (05 Dec 2024)
• Copilot in Azure Quantum - ✍️Quantum workload guidance with Copilot integration. (June 2023)
• Copilot in Windows - ✍️System-level AI integration in Windows. (Sep 2023)
• Copilot+ PC - ✍️Windows PCs with integrated NPUs for AI workloads. (May 2024)
• Dynamics 365 Copilot - ✍️Embedded generative assistance across Dynamics workloads. (March 2023)
• Fabric Copilot - ✍️Copilot features for Fabric. (March 2024)
• GitHub Copilot - ✍️AI pair programming for code completion and chat. (Oct 2021)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot - ✍️Cross-suite productivity AI assistance. (Nov 2023)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - ✍️Chat experience (free tier) and pay-as-you-go agents.
• Microsoft Copilot - ✍️Web-based AI assistant (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise). (Nov 2023)
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure - ✍️AI-assisted cloud operations for management and optimization. (Nov 2023)
• Nuance DAX Copilot - ✍️Clinical documentation automation. (18 Jan 2024)
• Power Apps AI Copilot - Copilot feature in ✍️Power Apps AI. (March 2023)
• Power Automate Copilot - Copilot feature in ✍️Power Automate cloud flows. (March 2023)
• PowerBI Copilot - ✍️Copilot features in Power BI. (March 2024)
• Process Mining ingestion - ✍️Copilot feature for process mining ingestion in Power Automate. (March 2023)
• Security Copilot - ✍️Security operations copiloting for defenders. (March 2023)
• Team Copilot - ✍️Meeting, collaboration, and project facilitation. (May 2024)
• Viva Copilot - ✍️Employee experience and engagement assistance. (April 2023)
• Windows AI Foundry - ✍️Platform for local and hybrid AI app development (evolved from Windows Copilot Runtime). (May 2024)
• Windows Copilot Runtime - ✍️The set of APIs powered by the 40+ on-device models. (May 2024)
• Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 - ✍️Dedicated agents that help users create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. (19 Nov 2025)
• Work IQ - ✍️Enterprise intelligence layer behind Microsoft 365 Copilot agents (Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ). (18 Nov 2025)

Agent Development

• 🏛️Agent 365 SDK - C# /.NET - .NET samples for Microsoft Agent 365. (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️Agent 365 SDK - Python - Python samples for Microsoft Agent 365. (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️Agent 365 SDK Samples and Prompts - Sample scenarios for Microsoft Agent 365. (Oct 2025)
• Agent builder & Plan designer in Power Apps - ✍️Design and configure intelligent solutions in Power Apps.
• Agents in Power Platform - ✍️AI first no-code development with Copilot agents in Power Platform. (19 Nov 2024)
• agentic-platform-engineering - Platform engineering patterns using GitHub Copilot agents and golden paths. (Feb 2026)
• 🏛️AI Agents for Beginners - A Course - Ten-lesson introduction to building AI agents for Beginners. (Nov 2024)
• 🏛️AI BAST Agents Library - AI BAST Specialist Team agents library. Rapid Agent Prototype Pattern (RAPP). (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️AI Developer - Challenges for Learning Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel Fundamentals. (Oct 2024)
• 🏛️AI fluency - Learning resources and challenges for AI fluency. (Apr 2024)
• Adding Aspire to a Python RAG Application - ✍️Use Aspire for local orchestration and observability in Python RAG apps. (Jan 2026)
• 🏛️Automated Compliance Agents Hackathon - Hands-on hackathon challenges for multi-agent financial compliance workflows. (Sep 2025)
• Azure AI Agent Service - ✍️Managed agent service in Azure AI Foundry. (19 Nov 2024)
• Azure AI Foundry - ✍️Portal and SDK for building generative AI solutions.
• 🏛️Azure AI Foundry & Agents Workshop - Azure AI Foundry & Agents workshop materials. (Nov 2025)
• Combine Copilot Agents with Office Add-ins - ✍️Enhance Copilot with Office add-in actions for natural language interaction with Office documents. (22 May 2025)
• FoundryIQ-and-Agent-Framework-demo - Multi-agent demo using Microsoft Agent Framework SDK and Azure AI Foundry with FoundryIQ. (Jan 2026)
• Introducing Skills in Azure API Center - ✍️Govern reusable AI skills alongside APIs and MCP servers. (Mar 2026)
• Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, Copilot Control System - ✍️New agent capabilities and management tools for IT teams.
• Microsoft 365 Agents SDK - ✍️The evolution of the Bot Framework to build AI Agents. (19 Nov 2024)
• 🏛️Microsoft 365 Agents SDK - C# /.NET - Microsoft 365 Agent SDK components for .NET. (Nov 2024)
• 🏛️Microsoft 365 Agents SDK - Python - Microsoft 365 Agent SDK components for Python. (Dec 2024)
• Microsoft Agent Factory - ✍️Program for building agents with Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ via Microsoft Foundry & Copilot Studio. (19 Nov 2025)
• Microsoft Discovery - ✍️Graph-based scientific co-reasoning. Specialized discovery agents for conducting research. (19 May 2025)
• Microsoft Entra Agent ID - ✍️Central registration and governance for organizational AI agents. (20 May 2025)
• Microsoft Foundry - ✍️Azure AI Foundry rebranded as Microsoft Foundry. Blog with recent updates. (18 Nov 2025)
• 🏛️Model Mondays - Weekly livestream and office hours on generative AI models and model selection. (Feb 2025)
• 🏛️PowerPlatform-DataverseClient-Python - Python client for Microsoft Dataverse — CRUD, SQL queries, and file uploads. (Aug 2025)
• SharePoint Agent - ✍️Turn SharePoint sites and documents into interactive agents.
• 🏛️WorkIQ CLI and MCP - MCP Server and CLI for accessing Work IQ. (Jan 2026)

Copilot Development

• Agent Evaluation in Microsoft Copilot Studio - ✍️Structured, automated testing solution directly in Copilot Studio.
• Community contributed samples for the Microsoft 365 Copilot - Samples for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot features. (Sep 2024)
• 🏛️Copilot Developer Camp - Hands-on labs for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot and building custom agents. (Jan 2024)
• Copilot Studio Labs - Hands-on labs for building AI agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Copilot Studio March 2025 Update - ✍️Added autonomous agents, deep reasoning, and MCP integration. (31 Mar 2025)
• Copilot Studio Monthly updates - Copilot Studio news and features for the last month.
• Copilot System Overview (video) - Copilot Architecture explanation video. (Mar 2023)
• Copilot Tuning - ✍️Low-code model tuning and grounded agent creation. (May 2025)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot - App Builder and Workflows - ✍️Build working apps & workflows using natural language.
• 🏛️Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs Client Libraries - Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs client libraries. (Mar 2025)
• Microsoft Copilot Studio - ✍️Customization and orchestration environment (formerly Power Virtual Agents). (Nov 2023)
• Power CAT - ✍️Microsoft Power CAT tools for Power Platform and Copilot Studio adoption. (Feb 2026)

Azure AI Search

• Agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search - ✍️An automated query engine that creates and runs its own retrieval plan for relevant results to complex questions. (20 May 2025)
• Azure AI Search Blog - ✍️News, best practices, and updates for Azure AI Search.
• 🏬Azure AI Search Demos using Jupyter Notebook - Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate vector search, hybrid search, image search, RAG, and evaluation. (Sep 2024)
• Azure AI Search Documentation - ✍️Official product documentation and tutorials for Azure AI Search.
• 🏬Azure AI Search Multimodal Sample - Demonstrates multimodal ingestion and retrieval patterns. (May 2025)
• 🏬Azure AI Search Power Skills - Custom skills for Azure AI Search. (Jun 2019)
• Azure AI Search Python Playground - A collection of Jupyter notebooks designed to explore the various capabilities of Azure AI Search. (Feb 2024)
• Azure AI Search Samples - Official sample code for Azure AI Search.
• 🏬Azure AI Search OpenAI Purview Data Security Demo - Demo integrating Azure Search, OpenAI, and Purview data security. (Jun 2025)
• Azure AI Search: Outperforming vector search with hybrid retrieval and reranking - ✍️Vector search with hybrid retrieval and reranking. (18 Sep 2023)
• Document-level access control - ✍️Document-level access helps restrict content visibility to authorized users, based on predefined access rules. (20 May 2025)
• Integrated vectorization - ✍️Automatically splits documents into chunks, creates embeddings with Azure OpenAI, maps them to an Azure AI Search index, and automates query vectorization. (24 Aug 2024)
• Python samples for Azure AI Search - Python samples used in Azure AI Search Documentation. (Apr 2019)
• RAG-Knowledge - Sample code for Data Preprocessing, Chunking, Index Design, Query Optimization. (Jun 2024)
• Relevance scoring in hybrid search - ✍️Hybrid search with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).
• REST examples for Azure AI Search - REST sample requests for search features. (Apr 2019)
• 🌐Vector Search Sample Code - Sample code demonstrating Azure AI Search vector capabilities. (Oct 2019)

Azure AI Services

• Artificial Intelligence Architecture Design - ✍️Overview of Azure AI services and solution patterns.
• Assistants API - ✍️Code Interpreter, Function calling, Knowledge retrieval tool, and Threads. (06 Feb 2024)
• Azure AI Content Understanding - ✍️Transforming Multimodal Data into Insights.
• Azure AI Foundry - ✍️Azure AI Foundry portal (formerly Azure AI Studio). (19 Nov 2024)
• Azure AI Foundry Agent Service - ✍️Azure AI Foundry Agent Service to create enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems. (20 May 2025)
• Azure AI Foundry Fine Tuning - ✍️Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with o4-mini. (20 May 2025)
• Azure AI Foundry SDK - ✍️Unified SDK with pre-built app templates. (19 Nov 2024)
• Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service - ✍️Deep Research capabilities in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. (7 Jul 2025)
• Responses API - ✍️Chat Completions API with the advanced tool-calling capabilities.
• Weights & Biases with Azure - ✍️Fine-Tuning with Weights & Biases and Azure OpenAI.

Microsoft Research

• AsyncThink - ✍️Asynchronous thinking protocol with organizer/worker fork–join actions extending sequential and parallel paradigms. (30 Oct 2025)
• AutoGen Studio - ✍️A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems. (9 Aug 2024)
• Azure AI Foundry Labs - ✍️Research driven tools and experimental projects.
• Be My Eyes📑 - ✍️A modular, multi-agent framework that extends LLMs to multimodal reasoning by coordinating efficient VLM perceivers (Qwen2.5-VL-7B) and powerful LLM reasoners (text-only DeepSeek-R1) through conversational collaboration. (24 Nov 2025)
• Claimify - ✍️Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs. (19 Mar 2025)
• Data Formulator - ✍️AI-powered Concept-driven Visualization Authoring. (18 Sep 2023)
• Data Formulator 2 - ✍️Iterative Creation of Data Visualizations, with AI Transforming Data Along the Way. (18 Sep 2023)
• Data Science Toolkit - ✍️Open-source collection of proven ML and AI implementation accelerators.
• E5 - ✍️Embedding model for Multilingual and Mutitask. Contrastive Pre-training (CCPairs dataset — millions of high-quality pairs of related texts (e.g., paraphrases or semantically similar sentences). (Dec 2022)
• Fara-7B - An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use. (24 Nov 2025)
• GeoMind - ✍️A multi-agent system that lets non-experts query complex geospatial data in natural language. (28 Jan 2026)
• GraphRAG (by Microsoft) - ✍️RAG with a graph-based approach to efficiently answer both specific and broad questions over large text. (24 Apr 2024)
• Knowledge-Augmented Large Language Models for Personalized Contextual Query Suggestion - ✍️K-LaMP. Contextual memory layer for LLM application. (10 Nov 2023)
• 🏛️lida - LLM-powered data visualization and infographic generation from structured data. (Oct 2023)
• Magentic-One - ✍️A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks.
• Magentic-UI - ✍️Magentic-UI, built on Magentic-One, can browse the web, run Python and shell code, and process files.
• 🏛️MarS - A Financial Market Simulation Engine Powered by Generative Foundation Model - Financial market simulation using generative AI. (4 Sep 2024)
• MatterGen - ✍️Generative model for inorganic materials design. (13 May 2024)
• Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) - ✍️Multi-Agent System. Accurately diagnoses up to 85% of NEJM case proceedings, which is over four times the rate achieved by a group of experienced physicians.
• Microsoft Office Copilot: Natural Language Commanding via Program Synthesis - ✍️Semantic Interpreter, a natural language-friendly AI system for productivity software such as Microsoft Office that leverages large language models (LLMs) to execute user intent across application features. (6 Jun 2023)
• Mnesis - A memory framework for LLMs combining similarity search with Global Selection, using a base graph for fast retrieval and a hierarchical graph for top-down semantic traversal. (17 Feb 2026)
• NL2KQL - ✍️From Natural Language to Kusto Query. (3 Apr 2024)
• Optimizing Model Selection for Compound AI Systems - ✍️A framework that automatically optimizes model selection for compound AI systems. (20 Feb 2025)
• 🏛️PIKE-RAG - Specialized Knowledge & Rationale Augmentation Generation. (20 Jan 2025)
• PromptWizard - ✍️The prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts. (17 Dec 2024)
• R&D-Agent-Quant - ✍️R&D-Agent for Quantitative Finance, in short RD-Agent(Q), the first data-centric multi-agent framework designed to automate the full-stack research and development of quantitative strategies via coordinated factor-model co-optimization. (21 May 2025)
• SpreadsheetLLM - ✍️Introduces an efficient method to encode Excel sheets, outperforming previous approaches with 25 times fewer tokens. (12 Jul 2024)
• VeriTrail - ✍️Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance in multi-step AI workflows. (5 Aug 2025)
• VibeVoice - ✍️Open-Source Text-to-Speech. (26 Aug 2025)

Azure OpenAI Application

• 🏛️AI Dev Gallery - Windows application featuring interactive samples powered by local AI models. (Nov 2024)
• An open-source template gallery - ✍️An open-source template gallery to get started with Azure.
• 🏬ARGUS - Hybrid approach with Azure Document Intelligence combined and GPT4-Vision to get better results without any pre-training. (Jun 2024)
• 🌐Azure AI CLI - Interactive command-line tool for AI. (Jul 2023)
• 🏬Azure Cosmos DB + OpenAI ChatGPT - Integration sample with Cosmos DB and chat interface. (Apr 2023)
• 🏬Azure OpenAI Embeddings QnA - Embeddings-powered Q&A sample. (Apr 2023)
• Azure Video Indexer demo - ✍️Azure Video Indexer demo integrating OpenAI. (Apr 2023)
• 🏛️azurechat - Azure OpenAI chat accelerator with managed identities and enterprise controls. (Jan 2025)
• 🏛️Call center AI - Initiate phone calls from an AI agent via API or direct dialing. (Jan 2024)
• 🏬C# ChatGPT + Enterprise Data - C# reference app using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI. (Apr 2023)
• 🏬Chat with Your Data Accelerator - Accelerator for grounding chat on custom data sources. (Feb 2023)
• 🏬ChatGPT + Enterprise Data RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) - Enterprise RAG sample integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. (Feb 2023)
• 🏬ChatGPT Plugin Quickstart using Python and FastAPI - Sample plugin implementation using Python and FastAPI. (May 2023)
• 🏛️EdgeAI for Beginners - Small Language Models (SLMs) optimized samples for On-device inference. (Jun 2025)
• eShopSupport - A reference .NET application using AI for a customer support ticketing system. (Apr 2024)
• GPT-Azure-Search-Engine - Integration of Azure Bot Service with LangChain. (Feb 2023)
• 🏬Miyagi - Integration demo spanning multiple LangChain libraries. (Apr 2023)
• Prompt Buddy - Share and upvote favorite AI prompts. (Mar 2024)
• 🌐Simple ChatGPT UI Application - Scalable web UI pattern for Azure OpenAI chat. (Apr 2023)
• Smart Components - Experimental, end-to-end AI features for .NET apps. (Mar 2024)
• 🏬VoiceRAG - Voice-enabled RAG using Azure AI Search and GPT-4o Realtime. (Sep 2024)

Azure OpenAI Accelerator

• accelerators.ms - ✍️Microsoft catalog of accelerators, reference apps, and AI solution starters.
• 🏛️Agentic Applications for Unified Data Foundation - Agentic AI accelerator combining Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry agents, and Semantic Kernel. (Sep 2025)
• 🏬AI Hub Gateway Landing Zone - Enterprise-ready solution accelerator for implementing a centralized AI API gateway. (May 2024)
• 🌐AI Solution Accelerators - List of Azure AI Solution Accelerators for demonstration and simplified deployment. (Sep 2022)
• 🌐AI-in-a-Box - AI-in-a-Box aims to provide an "Azure AI/ML Easy Button" for common scenarios. (Sep 2023)
• 🌐Azure Accelerator Repos - Collection of official Azure accelerators.
• 🌐Azure Multimodal AI + LLM Processing Accelerator - Build multimodal data processing pipelines with Azure AI Services + LLMs. (Aug 2024)
• 👥Azure-Cognitive-Search-Azure-OpenAI-Accelerator - Proof of Concept (POC) for a Generative AI Multi-Agent Architecture using Azure Services. (May 2023)
• 🌐Azure Landing Zones Accelerator - Collection of Azure Landing Zones Accelerator.
• 🏬Azure-Samples Accelerators - Community driven sample accelerators.
• 🏬Azure-samples: Accelerator Collection - Accelerator Collection sorted by stars count.
• 🏛️Build Your Own Copilot Solution Accelerator - Solution Accelerator to show how to build your own copilot. (Mar 2024)
• 🏛️Chat with your data - Solution accelerator - Azure-based RAG accelerator using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI. (Oct 2025)
• 🏛️Conversation Knowledge Mining Solution Accelerator - Generative AI solution for extracting insights from conversational data using Azure AI and Azure OpenAI. (Jun 2020)
• 👥Conversational Azure OpenAI Accelerator - Conversational AI solution accelerator using Azure OpenAI. (Feb 2022)
• 🏛️Document generation solution accelerator - AI assistant for document generation. (Jun 2024)
• 🏛️Generic accelerator for Build your own copilot - Build your own copilot solution accelerator. (Jun 2024)
• 🏬Healthcare Agent Orchestrator - A multi-agent accelerator that coordinates modular specialized agents to assist multi-disciplinary healthcare workflows. (May 2025)
• 👥MSUS Azure Accelerators - Partner accelerator implementations.
• 🏛️Multi Agent Custom Automation Engine Solution Accelerator - AI-driven multi-agent automation reference solution built on Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure Foundry, and Azure Cosmos DB. (Dec 2024)
• 🏛️Unified data foundation with Fabric solution accelerator - Unified Data Foundation accelerator using Microsoft Fabric with Databricks and Purview integration options. (Aug 2025)

Azure OpenAI Samples

• 🏛️Agent-Framework-Samples - Sample projects demonstrating Microsoft Agent Framework usage. (Sep 2025)
• AI Samples for .NET - Official .NET AI samples (evaluation, integration). (Feb 2024)
• 🏬AI-in-a-Box - Generative AI Bot Quickstart - A template deploys a Generative AI Virtual Assistant using Azure OpenAI and Bot Framework. (Aug 2024)
• 🏛️AI-in-One-Dashboard - Power BI template for comprehensive AI usage analytics. (Oct 2025)
• AI Hub Gateway - ✍️Reference architecture and accelerator for a central enterprise AI gateway. (Dec 2025)
• 🏬APIM-Unified-AI-Gateway-Sample - Single APIM endpoint for Phi-4, GPT-4.1, and Gemini with centralized governance. (Jan 2026)
• 🌐Azure OpenAI Using PTUs/TPMs With API Management - Scaling Azure OpenAI using APIM. (Sep 2023)
• 🏬Azure AI Foundry Baseline - Baseline setup for Azure AI Foundry projects (Jan 2024)
• 🏬Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions samples - On-demand, short-lived container sessions using Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions. (May 2024)
• 🌐Azure Functions OpenAI Extension - OpenAI bindings for Azure Functions (C#). (Nov 2023)
• 🌐Azure LLM Fine-tuning - SLM/LLM Fine-tuning on Azure. (May 2024)
• 🌐Azure Machine Learning examples - Official community-driven Azure Machine Learning examples. (Aug 2020)
• 🏬Azure OpenAI cookbook - The repository for all Azure OpenAI Samples complementing the OpenAI cookbook. (Apr 2023)
• 🏛️Azure OpenAI Design Patterns - A set of design patterns using the Azure OpenAI service. (May 2023)
• Azure OpenAI Network Latency Test Script - Azure OpenAI Network Latency Test Script using Python. (Jun 2023)
• 🏬Azure OpenAI RAFT - RAFT Fine-Tuning for RAG Using Azure OpenAI. (Sep 2024)
• 🏬Azure OpenAI RAG workshop - RAG using LangChain.js and OpenAI. Hosted on Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Container Apps, with Azure AI Search as the vector database. (8 Nov 2023)
• 🏬Azure OpenAI with AKS by Terraform (simple version) - Azure OpenAI with AKS by Terraform (simple version). (May 2023)
• 🏛️Azure OpenAI workshop - Workshop materials to build intelligent solutions on Open AI. (Feb 2023)
• 🏬Azure SQL DB + AOAI - AI applications built on data from an Azure SQL Database. (Oct 2023)
• 🏬Azure-Samples - Azure-Samples GitHub organization site.
• 🏛️Build AI Solutions with Azure AI Foundry - Sample code and materials for building generative-AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry / Azure AI Studio, including prompt-engineering examples and workflows. (Jul 2024)
• 🌐Build Your Own Copilot - RAG demo using Cosmos DB, AKS, Semantic Kernel. (Dec 2023)
• 🏬Create an Azure OpenAI, LangChain, ChromaDB, and Chainlit ChatGPT-like application in Azure Container Apps using Terraform - ChatGPT-like application in Azure Container Apps using Terraform. (Jul 2023)
• 🏬Design and Evaluation of RAG Solutions - Resources for designing and evaluating RAG solutions. (Sep 2024)
• 🏬Document Intelligence-in-a-Box - Uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract data from PDF forms and store results in Azure Cosmos DB — part of the "AI-in-a-Box" accelerator. (Jun 2024)
• 🏬Document Processing with Azure AI Samples - Document Intelligence plus generative enrichment examples. (Oct 2024)
• 🏛️Domain-Specific Languages Copilot - Domain-Specific Languages specialized Copilot demo & Fine Tuning Pipeline. (Mar 2024)
• 🏬Enterprise Logging - Comprehensive logging of Azure OpenAI model execution. (Feb 2023)
• 🌐Enterprise RAG Avatar - GPT-RAG Avatar integrates Generative AI responses, real-time streaming into a dynamic avatar interface. (Feb 2025)
• 🏬Evaluating a RAG Chat App - Tools for evaluation of RAG Chat Apps using Azure AI Evaluate SDK. (Nov 2023)
• 🏛️Fabric notebooks for analyzing chat history stored in CosmosDB - Fabric notebooks for analyzing chat history. (Sep 2024)
• 🌐Generate Synthetic QnAs from Real-world Data - Demonstrating how to create/augment a QnA dataset from complex unstructured data.
• 🌐GPT RAG Ingestion - GPT-based RAG ingestion utilities. (Sep 2024)
• 🌐GPT-RAG - Enterprise RAG solution accelerator. (Jun 2023)
• 🏬Legal Research Copilot Example - GraphRAG on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Use U.S. Case Law dataset of 0.5 million legal cases. (17 Sep 2024)
• 🏛️Microsoft AI Tour - A session and workshop how to best leverage AI. (Aug 2024)
• 🏛️Microsoft Copilot Studio Samples - Samples and artifacts for Microsoft Copilot Studio. (Oct 2019)
• Microsoft.Extensions.AI - ✍️Unified C# abstractions for models, embeddings, and middleware. (8 Oct 2024)
• 🏛️Model Context Protocol Curriculum for Beginners - Introductory MCP course. (Apr 2025)
• 🏬OpenAI Chat Application with Microsoft Entra Authentication - Authenticated chat starter with Microsoft Entra ID. (May 2024)
• 🏛️RAG for Azure Data - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Azure Data. (Jun 2023)
• 🏛️Semantic Kernel Cookbook - Semantic Kernel Cookbook for beginners. (Jan 2024)
• 🌐Setting up Azure OpenAI with Azure API Management - Azure AI to your application developers in a secure & manageable way with Azure API Management. (Jan 2024)
• 🏬Smart Load Balancing for Azure OpenAI - Intelligent routing across multiple Azure OpenAI deployments. (Jan 2024)
• 🏬Vector similarity search with Azure SQL & Azure OpenAI - Samples on how to use Azure SQL database with Azure OpenAI. (May 2023)

Use Case & Architecture References

• AI Agent-Driven Auto Insurance Claims RAG Pipeline - ✍️Agent-driven claims processing reference. (09 Sep 2024)
• AI decision tree - ✍️Selecting the most suitable tools and platforms for your generative and nongenerative AI use cases.
• AI Feed - ✍️Azure AI news, events, and discussions.
• AI gateway capabilities in Azure API Management - ✍️Semantic Caching. Azure AI Content Safety. LLM policies (llm-token-limit, llm-emit-metric, llm-content-safety). (01 May 2025)
• AI-Landing-Zones - Reference architecture for secure, scalable Azure AI apps and agents. (Mar 2026)
• AI Landing Zones Guardrails for Azure Machine Learning - ✍️Recommended Azure Policy initiative for Azure Machine Learning guardrails.
• AI Landing Zones Guardrails for Bot Service - ✍️Recommended Azure Policy initiative for Bot Service guardrails.
• AI Landing Zones Guardrails for Cognitive Services - ✍️Recommended Azure Policy initiative for Cognitive Services guardrails.
• AI Landing Zones Guardrails for OpenAI - ✍️Recommended Azure Policy initiative for Azure OpenAI guardrails.
• An Introduction to LLMOps - ✍️Operationalizing and Managing Large Language Models using Azure ML. (27 Aug 2023)
• Authentication and Authorization in Generative AI applications with Entra ID and Azure AI Search - ✍️Authentication in AI applications with Entra ID and Azure AI Search. (09 Jan 2024)
• Azure AI Foundry Blog - ✍️Azure AI Foundry Blog for Azure AI news, events.
• Azure AI Services Landing Zone - Azure AI Landing Zone with Terraform. (24 Jul 2023)
• Azure Command Companion - ✍️Azure CLI Command Generation to translate natural language into the appropriate Azure CLI commands. (10 Dec 2023)
• Azure OpenAI and Call Center Modernization - ✍️Azure OpenAI and Call use case to improve its customer service and reduce the cost and time of handling customer calls. (11 Apr 2024)
• Azure OpenAI Best Practices Insights from Customer Journeys - ✍️Best Practices for Azure OpenAI Resources. (12 Jun 2024)
• Azure OpenAI chat baseline architecture - ✍️Designing your production enterprise chat applications.
• Azure OpenAI Landing Zone reference architecture - ✍️A reference architecture that integrates a variety of services to create a seamless infrastructure for running OpenAI workloads. (24 Jul 2023)
• Baseline Agentic AI Systems Architecture - ✍️Agentic AI Systems Architecture to build multiple conversable agents system. (20 Aug 2024)
• Baseline OpenAI end-to-end chat reference architecture - ✍️Azure AI Foundry chat reference architecture.
• Build language model pipelines with memory - ✍️Baseline Azure AI Foundry chat reference architecture.
• Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework - ✍️Multi-Agent Workflow Travel Planner With WebJob.
• 🏛️CAIRA - Composable AI Reference Architectures (CAIRA). (Jul 2025)
• Chat with your Azure DevOps data - ✍️The solution leverages Azure DevOps CLI to periodically export ADO Work Items as JSON and store them in Azure Blob storage. (10 Jan 2024)
• Check Your Facts and Try Again: Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback - ✍️Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback. (07 Mar 2023)
• Copilot Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert - ✍️First two experimental custom agents for .NET developers: C# Expert and WinForms Expert.
• Designing and developing a RAG solution - ✍️Designing a RAG application flow, RAG data pipeline flow.
• Evaluations, Monitoring, Tracing in Microsoft Foundry - ✍️Built-in and custom evaluators across development, CI, and production. (Jul 2025)
• Extend your coding agent with .NET skills - ✍️How to extend coding agents using .NET skills. (09 Mar 2026)
• Grounding LLMs - ✍️Use-cases for Grounding & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). (09 Jun 2023)
• How real-world businesses are transforming with AI - ✍️Collected over 200 examples of how organizations are leveraging Microsoft AI capabilities. (12 Nov 2024)
• How to develop AI Apps and Agents in Azure – A Visual Guide - ✍️A Visual map to help you decide which Azure AI service is best for your use case. (4 Dec 2024)
• Industry Cloud Reference Architectures - Holistic architecture design and reference implementation for industry cloud. (Sep 2021)
• Integrate private access to your Azure Open AI Chatbot - ✍️Private access solutions to your Azure Open AI Chatbot. (30 Nov 2023)
• Microsoft AI / Responsible AI - ✍️Responsible AI resources from Microsoft.
• 🏛️Microsoft-AI-Decision-Framework - Decision framework for selecting Microsoft AI technologies across Copilot and Azure AI. (Nov 2025)
• NL to SQL Architecture Alternative - ✍️LLM to dynamically generate SQL queries, execute those SQL queries. (14 May 2024)
• Optimize Azure OpenAI Applications with Semantic Caching - ✍️Semantic cache pattern for latency and cost reduction. (09 Apr 2024)
• Partner Resources: AI & ML Academy - ✍️Comprehensive learning resources for partners and developers.
• Responsible AI Transparency Report - ✍️Responsible AI Transparency Report about key investments in responsible AI tools, policies, and practices.
• Retrieval Augmented Fine Tuning - ✍️RAFT: Combining the best parts of RAG and fine-tuning (SFT). (25 Sep 2024)
• Revolutionize your Enterprise Data with ChatGPT - ✍️One of well-known RAG application sample utilizing Azure. (09 Mar 2023)
• Safeguard and trustworthy generative AI applications - ✍️Announcing new tools in Azure AI to help you build more secure and trustworthy generative AI applications. (28 Mar 2024)
• Securing Azure AI Applications - ✍️The emerging threats and how to defend your Azure AI stack. (26 Nov 2025)
• Security Best Practices for GenAI Applications (OpenAI) in Azure - ✍️The best practices of security for GenAI applications in Azure. (16 Jan 2024)
• Smart Document Processing with ADI, AI Search and OpenAI - ✍️Reusable extraction pipeline for large semi-structured documents. (Dec 2025)
• Sovereign controls in data processing for Microsoft 365 Copilot - ✍️Microsoft 365 Data Residency and Processing commitments map.
• Using Keyless Authentication with Azure OpenAI - ✍️Entra ID token-based access to Azure OpenAI. (12 Apr 2024)
• Vector search technology choices (Azure Architecture Guide) - ✍️Decision guide for vector search technology choices.

Footnotes

• Emoji meanings in the list: GitHub organizations: 🌐 Azure | 🏬 Azure-samples | 🏛️ Microsoft | 👥 Azure Accelerators | ✍️ Blog post / Documentation / Paper | GitHub repository