Deploy Your First AI Model with Microsoft Foundry
Follow the guided steps to deploy a real AI model in your own dedicated cloud environment. No Azure subscription needed.
What you will build
Two deployed models on Microsoft Foundry, the flagship GPT-5 and the smaller gpt-5.4-mini, that you compare side by side in the Chat playground. The same setup used in real enterprise AI applications and tested in the AI-103 exam.
What you will learn
- Navigate the Microsoft Foundry portal
- Find and compare models using the model catalog, leaderboard and trade-off chart
- Deploy models and run the same prompts side by side in the playground
- Evaluate a flagship model against a smaller variant and recommend one
What you will use
Exam relevance
This lab covers Microsoft Foundry resource management, a core domain in the AI-103 exam. Completing it gives you hands-on experience with the environment the exam tests.
What happens when you launch it
1. Create your account
Email and password, or continue with Google. No credit card, and no Azure subscription of your own.
2. We build your environment
A dedicated cloud environment is provisioned for you and the sign-in credentials are issued at launch. Setting up takes about two minutes.
3. Work through the guided steps
The lab instructions sit beside the live environment, step by step, until both models are deployed and answering you.
Setting up takes about two minutes. The lab itself is written for about an hour, and you can stop and shut the environment down whenever you want.
Your first AI lab is free
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Want the whole track? See the full AI-103 syllabus.