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2.1 Create AI Project

This is Part 1 of the tutorial. This stage is completed USING THE AZURE AI FOUNDRY PORTAL

At the end of this section, you should have provisioned an Azure AI Hub and Azure AI project resource, setup an Azure AI Search resource and deployed two Azure OpenAI models for implementing the RAG-based copilot. You should also have launched GitHub Codespaces and configured your development environment to work with your provisioned Azure infrastructure.

1. Log Into Azure AI Foundry

  1. Open a private browser and navigate to https://ai.azure.com.
  2. Log in with an active Azure subscription. Note the tenant ID if multi-tenant.
  3. You should see a landing page with a blue "+ Create project" button as shown below. Azure AI Portal Landing Page

Note: If you had previously created projects, those will be listed as shown above. Don't worry if you don't see any listed for your profile. We are going to create a new project next.

2. Create a new project

  1. Click the "+ Create project" button. You should see a dialog popup like this. Your default project name and hub information will be different and reflect your prior activity. Azure AI Create Project

  2. Change the default project name to something memorable - I used ninarasi-ragchat-v1.

  3. We also want to create a new hub for our new AI project - let's fix that next in the dialog.
TROUBLESHOOTING: Your Create a project dialog looks different. (Click to expand)

You may see a dialog like this instead. This is typically the case when you don't have a pre-existing Hub selection and the workflow now automatically adds a default Hub resource. In this case, customize the project name as specified in step 1 above, then skip the step 3 below and go directly to customize the hub name as described in step 4 to complete the dialog.

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3. Create new hub

  1. Click the Create new hub (blue lettering) in dialog above.
  2. Pick a memorable name that reflects the project - I used ninarasi-ragchat-hub Create Hub Dialog
  3. Click "Next". It returns you to the previous dialog, with an enhanced view as shown Confirm Hub Dialog

4. Customize the hub

  1. Click the "Customize" button in that dialog. This lets you customize the defaults as shown.
  2. First, select a relevant Location with relevant model quota - I used East US2 Customize Hub Dialog
  3. Next,customize the resource group name to be memorable - I used ninarasi-ragchat-rg Customize RG
  4. Next, click "Create new AI Search" (blue lettering) in the dialog to trigger a new pop-up
  1. Customize resource name - I used ninarasi-ragchat-aisearch - then hit Next. Create AI Search
  2. You return to the Create a project wizard - hit Next to get to review. Customize RG
  3. Review the details one last time - hit Create to confirm AI project creation. Customize RG
  4. Creation takes a few minutes - all elements will show green on success. Customize RG

6. Review Created AI Project

  1. You should automatically be taken to the AI Project overview page as shown. Note the Project connection string under Project details - we'll revisit it later. Customize RG
  2. Click on the Open in management center link (highlighted in red) - it takes you to this Management Center view. Clicking Go to project will take you back to the AI project. Customize RG
  3. However, for now click on the Connected Resources option in the sidebar. This lets us see which resources can be accessed via the Project connection we noted earlier. Verify that Azure AI Search is one of the listed resources. Customize RG

CONGRATULATIONS! You created your Azure AI Hub & Project resources