Deploy a multimodal model

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To handle prompts that include images, you need to deploy a multimodal generative AI model - in other words, a model that supports not only text-based input, but image-based (and in some cases, audio-based) input as well. Multimodal models available in Azure AI Foundry include (among others):

  • Microsoft Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
  • OpenAI gpt-4o
  • OpenAI gpt-4o-mini

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To learn more about available models in Azure AI Foundry, see the Model catalog and collections in Azure AI Foundry portal article in the Azure AI Foundry documentation.

Testing multimodal models with image-based prompts

After deploying a multimodal model, you can test it in the chat playground in Azure AI Foundry portal.

Screenshot of the chat playground with an image-based prompt.

In the chat playground, you can upload an image from a local file and add text to the message to elicit a response from a multimodal model.