--- title: Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified... description: Microsoft announced Foundry IQ, a unified enterprise knowledge platform for grounding AI agents. Key updates include: a serverless tier in public preview with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/foundry-iq-build-smarter-agents-faster-with-unified-knowledge-and-serverless-retrieval-1vxbl4ck1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft announced Foundry IQ, a unified enterprise knowledge platform for grounding AI agents. 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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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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