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Learn how Microsoft Foundry IQ helps AI agents retrieve relevant information from enterprise data and generate grounded, citation-backed responses.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe how Foundry IQ provides agents with a managed, reusable knowledge layer.
- Explain how knowledge bases organize indexed and remote knowledge sources.
- Describe how agentic retrieval finds and returns relevant, cited information.
- Explain how an agent connects to a knowledge base and uses retrieved information.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of generative AI, AI agents, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).