This course teaches students how to build multimodal AI applications using Azure AI services and Microsoft Foundry. Learners will gain practical skills in developing vision-enabled generative AI solutions, creating image and video generation applications, analysing visual content, extracting information from documents, and building intelligent search and knowledge mining solutions.

This course is designed for:

• AI Engineers developing intelligent applications with Azure AI services.
• Software Developers who want to integrate AI-powered vision, image, video, and search capabilities into applications.
• Data and Platform Engineers working with AI services and content analysis solutions.
• Solution Architects designing modern AI-powered business applications.
• Technical professionals seeking hands-on experience with multimodal AI solutions in Azure.

Before attending this course, students should have:

• Familiarity with core Azure concepts, including subscriptions, resource groups, and basic Azure services.
• Basic understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, especially as they relate to visual or image data.
• General awareness of Azure AI services or prior exposure to Azurebased AI solutions.
• Experience working with data or applications in a cloud environment is helpful but not required.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Develop multimodal AI applications that process text, images, and video.
• Build vision-enabled generative AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry.
• Generate and manage AI-created images and videos.
• Analyse and extract insights from images and unstructured content.
• Create applications that use Azure Content Understanding services.
• Build document processing solutions using Azure Document Intelligence.
• Extract and structure information from business documents using AI models.
• Create intelligent search and knowledge mining solutions with Azure AI Search.
• Enrich content with AI skills and improve information discovery.
• Integrate multiple Azure AI services into scalable business solutions.

Module 1: Develop a vision-enabled generative AI application

• Use a vision-capable model in the Microsoft Foundry portal
• Develop a vision-based chat app

Module 2: Generate images with AI

• What are image-generation models?
• Explore image-generation models in Microsoft Foundry portal
• Create a client application that uses an image generation model

Module 3: Generate videos with Microsoft Foundry

• Deploy a video generating model
• Generate video from a prompt
• Generate video in Python

 Module 4: Analyze images with Content Understanding

• What is Content Understanding?
• Analyze images with Content Understanding

Module 5: Create a multimodal analysis solution with Azure Content Understanding

• What is Azure Content Understanding?
• Create a Content Understanding analyzer
• Use the Content Understanding API

Module 6: Create an Azure Content Understanding client application

• Prepare to use the AI Content Understanding API
• Create a Content Understanding analyzer
• Analyze content

Module 7: Extract data with Azure Document Intelligence

• What is Azure Document Intelligence?
• Use the Document Intelligence Studio
• Use prebuilt models
• Train and use custom models

Module 8: Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI Search

• What is Azure AI Search?
• Extract data with an indexer
• Enrich extracted data with AI skills
• Search an index
• Persist extracted information in a knowledge store