Azure AI Language

Azure Language (formerly Azure AI Language, now rebranded Azure Language in Foundry Tools) offers advanced natural language processing capabilities and customizable AI models, including personal data redaction, named entity extraction, summarization, conversational language understanding (CLU) for intent classification, custom question answering, and text analytics for health, using state-of-the-art transformer models with both large and small language models. It supports building small or large language models to analyze text, identify intents, answer questions and extract entities for a custom domain, training a model in one language and using it for multiple other languages. It can be deployed in the cloud or at the edge with containers, and works with Azure OpenAI and Azure Translator to build multilingual assistants and chatbots. Pricing is pay-as-you-go, based on the number of text records consumed for inference, training hours for custom models, and model hosting cost for custom models.