Microsoft announced Foundry IQ, a unified enterprise knowledge platform for grounding AI agents. Key updates include: a serverless tier in public preview with scale-to-zero pricing ($0.24 CU/hour), new knowledge sources (Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Azure SQL, File Search, MCP), general availability of knowledge bases with SLA backing, a Foundry IQ MCP server compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, and LangChain, up to 20% answer quality improvements and 54% recall gains over single-shot RAG, security enhancements including cross-tenant CMK and Purview sensitivity-label governance, and layout-aware document ingestion with image verbalization.
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What’s new Copy linkFoundry IQ Serverless in public preview Copy linkNew knowledge sources in preview Copy linkMicrosoft Web IQ in Foundry IQ now available Copy linkKnowledge bases in Foundry IQ are generally available Copy linkAgentic retrieval quality improvements Copy linkSecurity updates in preview Copy linkData pipeline updates in preview Copy linkGet started today Copy link80 Impressions