Using Llama 2 7B 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
llama2-7b-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 | $0.52 |
| Output tokens | $0.67 |
Capabilities
About Llama 2 7B Chat
The Llama 2 7B Chat model is a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 2 series, optimized for conversational AI applications. Built on an auto-regressive transformer architecture, it boasts 7 billion parameters and has been trained on a diverse dataset of 2 trillion tokens. The model underwent supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback to enhance its performance in dialogue scenarios. It demonstrates competitive capabilities in terms of helpfulness and safety compared to both open-source and closed-source alternatives like ChatGPT and PaLM. Designed for commercial and research use, particularly in English language tasks, it's well-suited for developing chatbots, virtual assistants, and other interactive AI systems. More details can be found on its Hugging Face page .