Foundry IQ: Fuel agents with enterprise knowledge and agentic retrieval | BRK246

Foundry IQ is Microsoft's context engineering platform that enables agents to unlock knowledge from everywhere, with state-of-the-art agentic RAG and enterprise-grade security built in. In this technical deep dive, we share the latest developments in Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search, new knowledge sources, agentic retrieval enhancements, and present retrieval performance innovations and evals for our 3rd year in a row — all designed to help you ship higher-quality agents faster.
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To learn more, please check out these resources:
* https://aka.ms/build26-next-steps
* https://aka.ms/build/foundrydiscord
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:
* Pablo Castro
𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
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BRK246 | English (US) | Agents & apps
Breakout | (300) Advanced
#MSBuild

Chapters:
0:00 - Explaining Foundry IQ’s layered architecture: integration, retrieval, and core retrieval engine
00:10:45 - Demonstration of using serverless Foundry IQ with agents and direct creation of services
00:16:09 - Connecting Foundry IQ to object stores and customizing ingestion pipelines
00:18:01 - Example setup using BLOB storage and continuous ingestion
00:23:11 - Exploring Fabric architecture and data integration layers
00:32:08 - Agentic retrieval pipeline explained—query planning and iterative search
00:33:52 - Performance improvements in agentic retrieval and contributing factors
00:36:09 - Demo setup: retrieve API for knowledge base
00:43:12 - Performance demo using full English Wikipedia index and closing remarks

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