--- title: "Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval" url: https://daily.dev/posts/foundry-iq-build-smarter-agents-faster-with-unified-knowledge-and-serverless-retrieval-1vxbl4ck1 source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-smarter-agents-faster-with-foundry-iq type: article source: "Microsoft Azure" published: 2026-06-05T13:52:15.751Z updated: 2026-06-18T21:23:09.187Z tags: ["ai-agents", "mcp", "rag"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval **[Microsoft Azure](https://daily.dev/sources/azure)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#rag](https://daily.dev/tags/rag) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/foundry-iq-build-smarter-agents-faster-with-unified-knowledge-and-serverless-retrieval-1vxbl4ck1)