Introduction to AI in Azure (AI-901T00)
Learn core AI concepts and how to get started building AI solutions in Microsoft Azure, including generative AI, language, speech, vision, and extraction.
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Course Overview
This course introduces fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and the Microsoft Azure services used to create AI solutions. You will explore foundational concepts and practical starting points for AI workloads involving generative AI, natural language, speech, computer vision, and information extraction.
Course Benefits
- Understand foundational AI concepts, including responsible AI considerations.
- Describe generative AI concepts such as large language models (LLMs), prompting, and AI agents.
- Explain natural language processing concepts, including tokenization, statistical text analysis, and semantic language models.
- Identify key speech AI concepts, including speech recognition and speech synthesis.
- Recognize computer vision tasks and approaches, including convolutional neural networks, vision transformers, and multimodal models.
- Describe information extraction techniques, including optical character recognition (OCR) and field extraction.
- Get started with Azure services and tools for generative AI, language, speech, computer vision, and information extraction.
Delivery Methods
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Course Outline
- Introduction to AI concepts
- Generative AI and agents
- Text and natural language
- Speech
- Computer vision
- Information extraction
- Responsible AI
- Module assessment
- Introduction to generative AI and agents
- Large language models (LLMs)
- Prompts
- AI agents
- Module assessment
- Introduction to natural language processing concepts
- Tokenization
- Statistical text analysis
- Semantic language models
- Module assessment
- Introduction to AI speech concepts
- Speech-enabled solutions
- Speech recognition
- Speech synthesis
- Module assessment
- Introduction to computer vision concepts
- Computer vision tasks and techniques
- Images and image processing
- Convolutional neural networks
- Vision transformers and multimodal models
- Image generation
- Module assessment
- Introduction to AI-powered information extraction concepts
- Overview of information extraction
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
- Field extraction and mapping
- Module assessment
- Get started with AI in Azure
- Understand Azure
- Developing AI apps on Azure
- Microsoft Foundry for AI
- Using Microsoft Foundry endpoints
- Get started with generative AI and agents in Azure
- Generative AI models
- Using a generative AI model
- Creating an agent
- Get started with text analysis in Azure
- Azure Language
- Azure Language SDK
- Azure Language MCP
- Module assessment
- Get started with speech in Azure
- Speech recognition
- Speech synthesis
- Creating a speech-capable agent
- Module assessment
- Get started with computer vision in Azure
- Multimodal models for image analysis
- Image generation models
- Video generation models
- Module assessment
- Get started with AI-powered information extraction in Azure
- Extract information from documents
- Extract information from audio and video
- Module assessment
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Azure class:
There are no required prerequisites.
Experience in the following would be useful for this Azure class:
- Experience using computers and the internet
- Interest in AI workloads and applications
- A basic understanding of math, including interpreting charts and simple probability
- Familiarity with fundamental programming concepts and Python syntax
- Knowledge of core cloud concepts, including storage, compute, authentication, and authorization
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