Every sysadmin knows the feeling. You log onto a server at 2:00 AM, open a massive log file, and start scrolling. Grep is great. Enterprise tools like Splunk or ELK are incredibly powerful. But sometimes, you just want to point an AI at a messy block of text and say, „Tell me what’s broken and […]
Build Your Own Private AI Chatbot: A Custom UI for Foundry Local & Phi-3.5
Introduction In my previous article, we walked through installing Microsoft Foundry Local and running the powerful Phi-3.5 model completely offline. It was a great first step into local AI. But let’s be honest: chatting with an AI inside a terminal window doesn’t feel very futuristic. In this tutorial, we will build exactly what you need: […]
Local AI in 2 Minutes: The Easiest Way to Chat with LLMs using Foundry Local
Welcome to the first part of my new series on Foundry Local. Over the coming weeks, I will be sharing specific use cases and deep dives into how we can leverage local AI to improve productivity without sending a single byte of data to the cloud. For this first post, we are focusing on the […]
Microsoft 365 Copilot vs. Azure AI Foundry: The Definitive Decision Guide
In the rapidly evolving Microsoft AI ecosystem, the line between „buying“ an AI solution and „building“ one is becoming increasingly nuanced. With the recent unification of the Azure AI portfolio under Azure AI Foundry, organizations now face a critical architectural choice. So lets dive into M365 Copilot vs Azure AI Foundry! Should you deploy Microsoft […]