The Three IQs: Ground Your Agents in Knowledge, Data, and Work | LIVE171
Microsoft introduces four 'IQs'—Web, Foundry, Fabric, and Work—to ground agents in web knowledge, unstructured data, structured data, and M365 context.
“Foundry IQ is an agentic retrieval mechanism that allows your agents to do that kind of agentic retrieval rather than simple old-fashioned rag that's existed for like 3 years.”
At Microsoft Build, Marco Casalina and Aisha introduced four 'IQs'—Web IQ, Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ—as a framework for grounding AI agents in web knowledge, unstructured data, structured data, and Microsoft 365 context. It matters because it positions agentic retrieval as a successor to traditional RAG and unifies disparate enterprise data sources behind a headless, agent-consumable interface.