Azure OpenAI — Deploy GPT 4.1 — Build an AI Product Search Agent (Part 3/6)

Description

We provision Azure OpenAI and deploy the GPT-4.1 model — the brain that extracts structured product data from PDF text and powers the final chat agent. We also deploy text-embedding-3-large for future vector search, grab the API endpoint and key, and do a quick sanity test in the Chat Playground. What you'll learn: Creating an Azure OpenAI resource Why GPT-4.1 for structured data extraction Deploying GPT-4.1 (Global Standard) Deploying text-embedding-3-large (optional) Getting the endpoint URL and API key Quick API test in Azure AI Foundry Chat Playground Cost breakdown (~$0.15 for 10 documents) 🔗 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/dhavalshah01/contoso-ai-paints