Improved data processing features in Foundry IQ: Richer content extraction and data enrichment (opens in new tab)

Great answers start before retrieval. They depend on how well your data pipeline can reach enterprise content, preserve document structure, and carry text and visual context into the index. As part of the Microsoft Foundry platform, the Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search) 2026-05-01-preview release focuses on that foundation: broader SharePoint indexing, richer Content Understanding extraction, and image serving for multimodal agentic retrieval, among others. Many limitations in RAG and agentic retr...