Creating a ChatGPT Clone with Next.js and Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry and OpenAI provide powerful AI capabilities that allow developers to integrate conversational AI and image generation into modern web applications. These services enable organizations to build intelligent applications that can understand natural language, maintain context across conversations, and generate custom images from text descriptions, transforming how businesses interact with customers and how individuals create digital content.

In this lab, you will build a complete AI-powered chat application with image generation capabilities using Next.js, Azure AI Foundry, and DALL-E. You'll learn how to integrate AI APIs into web applications, manage conversation state in React, and create multimodal interfaces that seamlessly blend text and visual content.

Objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate level lab, you will be able to:

• Build a conversational AI interface using Azure AI Foundry and Next.js
• Implement multi-turn conversation memory to maintain context across messages
• Integrate DALL-E image generation into a chat application
• Manage complex state in React with arrays and TypeScript interfaces

Who is this lab for?

This lab is designed for:

• Frontend developers wanting to learn React state management and Next.js patterns
• Full-stack developers interested in building AI-powered features
• Computer science students exploring modern web development with AI
• Technical founders building AI-driven products