Concepts

Understand the core components of the solution: Copilot Studio, Azure Open AI, Azure AI Search, and more.

1: Copilot Studio
2: Azure OpenAI
3: Azure AI Search
4: Azure Storage

1 - Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio is a platform that integrates various Azure AI services to provide advanced AI capabilities.

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Learn more about Copilot Studio: What is Copilot Studio?

2 - Azure OpenAI

The core of the Generative AI solution.

Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI’s powerful language models including the GPT-4, GPT-35-Turbo, and Embeddings model series. In addition, the new GPT-4 and gpt-35-turbo model series have now reached general availability. These models can be easily adapted to your specific task including but not limited to content generation, summarization, semantic search, and natural language to code translation. Users can access the service through REST APIs, Python SDK, or our web-based interface in the Azure OpenAI Studio.

Important concepts about Azure OpenAI:

Azure OpenAI Studio
Models available
- GPT-35-Turbo series: typical “chatGPT” model, recommended for most of the Azure OpenAI projects. When we might need more capability, GPT4 can me considered (take into account it will imply more latency and cost)
- GPT-4 series: they are the most advanced language models, available once you fill in the GPT4 Request Form
- Embeddings series: embeddings make it easier to do machine learning on large inputs representing words by capturing the semantic similarities in a vector space. Therefore, you can use embeddings to determine if two text chunks are semantically related or similar, and provide a score to assess similarity.
Take into account that not all models are available in all Azure Regions, for Regional availability check the documentation: Model summary table and region availability
Deployment: once you instantiate a specific model, it will be available as deployment. You can create and delete deployments of available models as you wish. This is managed through the AOAI Studio.
Quotas: the quotas available in Azure are allocated per model and per region, within a subscription. Learn more about quotas. In the documentation you can find best practices to manage your quota.

Copilot Studio and Azure Labs uses Azure OpenAI Embeddings model to vectorize the content and ChatGPT model to conversate with that content.

More information at the official documentation: What is Azure OpenAI

3 - Azure AI Search

Used to build a rich search experience over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

Azure AI Search (formerly known as “Azure Search”) is a cloud search service that gives developers infrastructure, APIs, and tools for building a rich search experience over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

Search is foundational to any app that surfaces text to users, where common scenarios include catalog or document search, online retail apps, or data exploration over proprietary content. When you create a search service, you’ll work with the following capabilities:

A search engine for full text and vector search over a search index containing user-owned content
Rich indexing, with lexical analysis and optional AI enrichment for content extraction and transformation
Rich query syntax for vector queries, text search, fuzzy search, autocomplete, geo-search and more
Programmability through REST APIs and client libraries in Azure SDKs
Azure integration at the data layer, machine learning layer, and AI (Azure AI services)

Copilot Studio and Azure Labs uses Azure AI Search to serve an index of vectorized content, that will be used by our LLM (ChatGPT) to respond to user’s query.

Learn more at the official documentation: What is Azure AI Search?.

Learning Path:Implement knowledge mining with Azure AI Search

4 - Azure Storage

Store the documents in Azure Blob Storage.s

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn’t adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

Blob Storage is designed for:

Serving images or documents directly to a browser.
Storing files for distributed access.
Streaming video and audio.
Writing to log files.
Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Copilot Studio and Azure Labs uses Blob Storage to store the documents (PDFs) that will be then vectorized, indexed or analyzed.

Learn more about Azure Blob Storage: What is Azure Blob Storage?