Using Llama 2 13B Chat on Microsoft Foundry
Implementation guide · Llama 2 · AI at Meta
Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
llama2-13b-chat— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
About Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry offers a comprehensive platform-as-a-service for enterprise AI operations. It provides multiple deployment options including Serverless APIs (pay-as-you-go), Global Standard (shared managed capacity), Provisioned Throughput Units (reserved capacity), batch processing, and bring-your-own model deployments. The platform features a unified control plane for models, agents, tools, and observability. Its Agent Service enables building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing, monitoring, and governance. Evaluation and monitoring tools assess model performance, safety, and groundedness. Foundry supports seamless upgrades from Azure OpenAI with non-destructive migration, maintaining existing deployments while unlocking multi-provider model access and advanced platform capabilities.
Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. It provides access to over 1,900 models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Hugging Face, and more. Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations.
Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.81 |
| Output tokens | $0.94 |
Capabilities
About Llama 2 13B Chat
The Llama 2 13B Chat model is a 13 billion parameter generative text model developed by Meta, optimized for conversational applications. Released on July 18, 2023, it's part of the Llama 2 family and excels in dialogue scenarios. The model leverages supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to generate coherent and contextually relevant responses. Trained on 2 trillion tokens from diverse public sources, it outperforms many open-source chat models and matches popular closed-source models in helpfulness and safety. This model is ideal for AI engineers working on chatbots, virtual assistants, and customer service automation. For more details, visit the model's Hugging Face page [1].