https://azurecharts.com/ Latest Azure updates provided by Azure Charts via Azure Terminal aka.ms/aztty RSS feed Fri, 22 May 2026 17:34:57 Z https://aztty.azurewebsites.net/rss/updates?service=147 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry/4517250 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry/4517250 Announcement Production AI is a moving target. Once you deploy an AI-powered agent, its behavior can shift without a single line of code being changed. As Microsoft's Foundry team states: "The hard part isn't get...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 22 May 2026 17:30:00 Z 2026-05-22T17:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-as-a-shared-knowledge-brain-for-multiple-ai-agents/4507495 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-as-a-shared-knowledge-brain-for-multiple-ai-agents/4507495 Announcement When we build AI agents today, the hardest part is often not reasoning or generation — it’s giving agents access to the right knowledge. In many projects, each agent ends up with its own retrieval lo...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 22 May 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-05-22T15:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/when-ai-should-ask-for-help-human-in-the-loop-patterns-in-microsoft-foundry/4514357 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/when-ai-should-ask-for-help-human-in-the-loop-patterns-in-microsoft-foundry/4514357 Announcement As AI agents become increasingly capable, modern applications are shifting from deterministic workflows to systems that can reason, adapt, and act. Platforms like Microsoft Foundry enable this transi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 21:30:00 Z 2026-05-21T21:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/teaching-ai-to-remember-exploring-memory-store-in-microsoft-foundry/4502381 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/teaching-ai-to-remember-exploring-memory-store-in-microsoft-foundry/4502381 Announcement Imagine interacting with an AI assistant that remembers your preferences - the tools you use, the projects you're working on, or even how you like your coffee. In many AI systems today, maintaining t...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 19:38:00 Z 2026-05-21T19:38:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-labs-%E2%80%93-may-2026/4520310 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-labs-%E2%80%93-may-2026/4520310 Announcement Four new releases this month — a new benchmark for how agents interact, an experimental end-to-end agentic stack, a faster image model, and a first-party geospatial model. Last month we kicked off ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:41:00 Z 2026-05-21T17:41:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cohere-command-a-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4522003 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cohere-command-a-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4522003 Announcement Command A+ is Cohere’s newest mixture-of-experts (MoE) model designed for enterprise-grade agentic AI workloads with exceptional efficiency and scalability. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, the ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:28:00 Z 2026-05-21T17:28:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/securing-azure-ai-applications-against-prompt-injection--part---2/4517179 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/securing-azure-ai-applications-against-prompt-injection--part---2/4517179 Announcement What’s Next? In our previous blog, we introduced the evolving GenAI threat landscape and explained why traditional security models fall short for AI-powered applications 👉 Securing Azure AI Applic...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 15:38:00 Z 2026-05-21T15:38:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/how-to-run-evals-for-model-router/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/how-to-run-evals-for-model-router/ Announcement Walk through running quality, cost, and latency evaluations for the Foundry model router using an open-source GitHub repo designed for router-aware eval pipelines. The post How to run evals for the model router appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 19 May 2026 16:34:07 Z 2026-05-19T16:34:07Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo-with-flux-1-schnell-and-sdxl-base-1-0/4520199 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo-with-flux-1-schnell-and-sdxl-base-1-0/4520199 Announcement This week's Model Mondays edition pairs three models available through the Hugging Face collection in Microsoft Foundry: Tongyi-MAI's Z-Image-Turbo, a new designed for lower latency on a single GPU a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 18 May 2026 16:04:00 Z 2026-05-18T16:04:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/not-available-in-your-region-isnt-a-dead-end-a-security-assessment-of-global-dep/4509804 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/not-available-in-your-region-isnt-a-dead-end-a-security-assessment-of-global-dep/4509804 Announcement You want to build with the latest Microsoft Foundry model. You checked the regional availability, and it isn't there yet — only Global Standard. Now you're weighing the capability you actually need a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Security Mon, 18 May 2026 15:45:00 Z 2026-05-18T15:45:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562533 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562533 Announcement Role names in Microsoft Foundry have been updated to align with the product brand. The following built-in roles are now renamed:Azure AI Account Owner → Foundry Account OwnerAzure AI Owner → Foundry OwnerAzure AI User → Foundry UserAzure AI Project Manage<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Container Registry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:42 Z 2026-05-15T22:00:42Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/designing-ai-driven-observability-for-trustworthy-agentic-ai-systems/4508844 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/designing-ai-driven-observability-for-trustworthy-agentic-ai-systems/4508844 Announcement 1.Why Observability Changes in Agentic AI Systems A developer recently recounted how a single runaway AI agent loop burned through $500 in OpenAI API charges in just 45 minutes with no errors or al...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 15 May 2026 16:24:00 Z 2026-05-15T16:24:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/building-an-ai-powered-contract-price-adjustment-agent-with-docusign-mcp-and-mic/4515997 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/building-an-ai-powered-contract-price-adjustment-agent-with-docusign-mcp-and-mic/4515997 Announcement Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Docusign Partner Solution Architects team for the original source code and examples that informed this implementation; I adapted and extended that foundation to ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 14 May 2026 20:29:00 Z 2026-05-14T20:29:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/open-model-inference-at-scale-on-foundry-what%E2%80%99s-new-with-fireworks-ai/4519534 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/open-model-inference-at-scale-on-foundry-what%E2%80%99s-new-with-fireworks-ai/4519534 Announcement We launched the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry two months ago, bringing best-in-class open model inference directly into Azure. The traction has been real and high. Fireworks AI'...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:00 Z 2026-05-14T16:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/nvidia-dynamo-on-aks---autoscaling-llm-inference/4499545 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/nvidia-dynamo-on-aks---autoscaling-llm-inference/4499545 Announcement Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from experimentation to production. While training often gets the spotlight, inference at scale is where real-world complexity emerges—especially when ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Kubernetes Service, Categories: Wed, 13 May 2026 18:09:00 Z 2026-05-13T18:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-grok-4-3-on-microsoft-foundry-latest-generation-agentic-capabilities/4517096 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-grok-4-3-on-microsoft-foundry-latest-generation-agentic-capabilities/4517096 Announcement Customers building advanced AI systems increasingly need models that can reason deeply, act autonomously, and integrate reliably into real‑world workflows—all without compromising on governance or co...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:00 Z 2026-05-13T16:12:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/private-networking-and-inference-in-microsoft-foundry-architecture-impact-on-ent/4513822 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/private-networking-and-inference-in-microsoft-foundry-architecture-impact-on-ent/4513822 Announcement Enterprise adoption of generative AI rarely fails because of model quality alone. More often, it fails at the intersection of network isolation, dependency reachability, and operational reality – esp...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 22:11:00 Z 2026-05-12T22:11:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-v1-1/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-v1-1/ Announcement Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 16:51:39 Z 2026-05-12T16:51:39Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-efficiency-in-modern-system-engineering-with-ai-agents/4516181 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-efficiency-in-modern-system-engineering-with-ai-agents/4516181 Announcement Authors: Pushpendra Kumar, Chockalingam A, Smitha Kashyap, Shilpi Gupta Overview As platforms become more complex and release cycles accelerate, traditional engineering workflows are beginning to...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 15:34:00 Z 2026-05-12T15:34:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-apr-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-apr-2026/ Announcement April brings Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 model support with Tier 5 and Tier 6 default quota in Microsoft Foundry, new tracing paths for Microsoft Agent Framework and hosted agents, CodeAct with Hyperlight for sandboxed agent code execution, expanded monitoring and continuous evaluation capabilities for production agents, SDK updates across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, and Java, and a reminder to register for Microsoft Build. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 07:13:15 Z 2026-05-12T07:13:15Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-new-chapter-for-realtime-ai-reasoning-translation-and-real-time-transcription/4517124 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-new-chapter-for-realtime-ai-reasoning-translation-and-real-time-transcription/4517124 Announcement Voice can be one of the most direct and productive interfaces for AI — enabling customer support agents that may resolve issues without a single keystroke, live multilingual communication that can ta...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 07 May 2026 17:59:00 Z 2026-05-07T17:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-ibm-granite-4-1-nvidia-nemotron-nano-omni-and-qwen3-6-35b-a3b/4516858 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-ibm-granite-4-1-nvidia-nemotron-nano-omni-and-qwen3-6-35b-a3b/4516858 Announcement This week Microsoft Foundry adds two major model families alongside a reasoning powerhouse that spans the full spectrum from specialized speech and vision to general-purpose coding and long-context a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 06 May 2026 16:30:00 Z 2026-05-06T16:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operationalizing-responsible-ai-in-microsoft-foundry-within-enterprise-network-b/4516869 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operationalizing-responsible-ai-in-microsoft-foundry-within-enterprise-network-b/4516869 Announcement Strategic Overview Deploying Microsoft Foundry within a VNet-integrated landing zone requires a thoughtful balance between innovation and enterprise-grade security, especially in highly regulated i...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories: Wed, 06 May 2026 05:23:00 Z 2026-05-06T05:23:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-openais-newest-chat-model-in-microsoft-foundry/4516848 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-openais-newest-chat-model-in-microsoft-foundry/4516848 Announcement OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant (or Chat-latest in the API) begins rolling out in Microsoft Foundry today as GPT-chat-latest. Built on GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.3-chat, the new model delivers measurable gains in fa...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 05 May 2026 18:10:00 Z 2026-05-05T18:10:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-deepseek-v4-flash-and-v4-pro-in-microsoft-foundry/4515174 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-deepseek-v4-flash-and-v4-pro-in-microsoft-foundry/4515174 Announcement As AI adoption matures, the conversation is shifting from model capability to system design, how to orchestrate models that deliver the right balance of quality, speed, and cost.  Today, we’re expa...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 01 May 2026 00:09:00 Z 2026-05-01T00:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/prompt-flow-is-being-retired/4513587 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/prompt-flow-is-being-retired/4513587 Announcement Prompt Flow in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Machine Learning will be retired on 20 April 2027. Customers should begin migrating existing Prompt Flow applications and deployments to Microsoft Agent Fra...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:15:00 Z 2026-04-30T21:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-post-stream-refinement-higher-accuracy-real-time-transcription/4510038 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-post-stream-refinement-higher-accuracy-real-time-transcription/4510038 Announcement Real-time speech recognition has always been defined by a fundamental trade-off: speed versus accuracy. Applications that need instant, streaming transcription — live captions, voice agents, real-tim...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:05:00 Z 2026-04-30T15:05:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/voice-live-api-now-supports-webrtc-preview/4516002 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/voice-live-api-now-supports-webrtc-preview/4516002 Announcement We are thrilled to announce that Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) connection, enabling low‑latency, real‑time voice interactions directly from web and mobile clients. ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-04-30T15:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operating-ai-agents-on-azure-observability-with-azure-ai-foundry/4515975 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operating-ai-agents-on-azure-observability-with-azure-ai-foundry/4515975 Announcement Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s enterprise platform for building, deploying, and operating AI applications and intelligent agents as first‑class Azure workloads. From an infrastructure perspective, F...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:00 Z 2026-04-29T19:15:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560982 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560982 GA Microsoft Agent Framework is now version 1.0 for both .NET and Python, with stable APIs and a long-term support commitment. Agent Framework 1.0 supports multi-agent orchestration, multi-provider model support, and cross-runtime interoperability via A2A an<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, SDK and Tools Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:15:05 Z 2026-04-29T18:15:05Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560992 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560992 Preview Foundry’s memory (preview) is a managed long-term memory capability built directly into Foundry Agent Service and now integrates natively with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph— no external databases to provision, scale, or secure.<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:55 Z 2026-04-29T00:00:55Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/architecting-cost-aware-llm-workloads-with-model-router-in-microsoft-foundry/4514440 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/architecting-cost-aware-llm-workloads-with-model-router-in-microsoft-foundry/4514440 Announcement The architectural problem In any non-trivial GenAI platform, you end up managing a fleet of models. Cheap models for classification and light chat. Reasoning models for multi-step tasks. Frontier m...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:45:00 Z 2026-04-28T17:45:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/organaize---what-happens-when-you-let-ai-agents-organize-themselves/4509792 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/organaize---what-happens-when-you-let-ai-agents-organize-themselves/4509792 Announcement The problem I wanted to explore Most agentic AI systems today follow a familiar pattern: you design the workflow, you decide which agents exist, you wire the communication between them. That works ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:30:00 Z 2026-04-28T16:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/bring-your-own-model-to-foundry-agent-service-is-now-generally-available/4515133 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/bring-your-own-model-to-foundry-agent-service-is-now-generally-available/4515133 GA Enterprise teams building AI agents often need to route model requests through their own infrastructure — whether for compliance, governance, or other controls provided by gateways. Today, we are exc...<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:15:00 Z 2026-04-27T21:15:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=561002 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=561002 GA Foundry Agent Service now supports bring‑your‑own‑model scenarios, allowing agents to use AI models deployed and managed outside of Foundry, including models hosted behind enterprise AI gateways such as Azure API Management. This enables organizations to<br />Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:00:52 Z 2026-04-27T18:00:52Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/azure-ai-foundry-vs-traditional-ml-pipelines-what%E2%80%99s-different-and-why-it-matters/4508897 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/azure-ai-foundry-vs-traditional-ml-pipelines-what%E2%80%99s-different-and-why-it-matters/4508897 Announcement The Traditional ML Pipeline: What It Was Built For Traditional ML pipelines typically look like this: Data ingestion and preparation Model training (often batch‑oriented) Model validation a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:06:00 Z 2026-04-27T06:06:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560997 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560997 Preview Hosted agents run in an isolated execution sandbox that provides a dedicated, secure runtime per agent session. Sessions start with a clean environment with no shared state between sessions, no cross-session data leakage, and strong compute boundaries bet<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:17 Z 2026-04-24T18:15:17Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560987 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560987 GA Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is now generally available and provides VS Code tooling for Microsoft Agent Framework, including agent creation from templates or via GitHub Copilot, local test/debug with visualization and traces, and direct deployment to Foun<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:17 Z 2026-04-24T18:15:17Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-an-agentic-service-to-microsoft-365-copilot-with-delegated-obo-access/4514197 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-an-agentic-service-to-microsoft-365-copilot-with-delegated-obo-access/4514197 Announcement You've built an agentic service. It works. It uses the framework you chose — maybe LangChain, maybe Semantic Kernel, maybe the Microsoft Agent Framework, maybe something entirely your own. It talk...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-04-24T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-capability-in-understanding-coordinates-how-gpt-5-4-transforms-spatial-preci/4506726 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-capability-in-understanding-coordinates-how-gpt-5-4-transforms-spatial-preci/4506726 Announcement   Why I Ran This Experiment This work started not as a benchmarking exercise, but as a practical problem: I needed to automatically extract panel regions from PDF-format electrical Single...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T19:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/automate-prior-authorization-with-ai-agents---now-available-as-a-foundry-templat/4513432 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/automate-prior-authorization-with-ai-agents---now-available-as-a-foundry-templat/4513432 Announcement By Amit Mukherjee · Principal Solutions Engineer, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Lindsey Craft-Goins · Technology Leader - Cloud & AI Platforms, Health & Life Sciences Joel Borellis · Director ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T16:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/openais-gpt-5-5-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-intelligence-on-an-enterprise-ready-platform https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/openais-gpt-5-5-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-intelligence-on-an-enterprise-ready-platform Announcement OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T00:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry/ Announcement Available in Public Preview Today   Toolbox is a new way to curate, configure, and reuse tools across all of your AI agents without rewiring them every time from Foundry.  Today, teams build agents across different frameworks and runtimes. Each agent often wires tools directly, with its own authentication, credentials, and integration code. As organizations scale agent usage, this leads […] The post Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:43 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:43Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/from-local-to-production-the-complete-developer-journey-for-building-composing-and-deploying-ai-agents/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/from-local-to-production-the-complete-developer-journey-for-building-composing-and-deploying-ai-agents/ Announcement When we launched Microsoft Agent Framework last October, we made a promise: building production-grade AI agents should feel as natural and structured as building any other software. Today, we’re delivering on that promise — with the v1.0 release of Microsoft Agent Framework and the general availability of Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (formerly AI […] The post From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:12 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:12Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agents/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agents/ Announcement Agents are already transforming how developers solve problems. Whether it’s a coding agent that refactors your repo overnight, a research agent that synthesizes hundreds of documents into a brief, or an ops agent that monitors and remediates infrastructure — the pattern is clear. Developers are building agents that don’t just answer questions, they go do […] The post Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:03 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:03Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/three-tiers-of-agentic-ai---and-when-to-use-none-of-them/4510377 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/three-tiers-of-agentic-ai---and-when-to-use-none-of-them/4510377 Announcement Every enterprise has an AI agent. Almost none of them work in production. Walk into any enterprise technology review right now and you will find the same thing. Pilots running. Demos recorded. Stee...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-04-22T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-6-in-microsoft-foundry/4513125 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-6-in-microsoft-foundry/4513125 Announcement We’re excited to welcome Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 to Microsoft Foundry expanding the platform’s growing catalog of open and frontier models designed for real-world, production-grade AI systems. Kimi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:56:00 Z 2026-04-22T15:56:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-foundry-finetune-april-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-foundry-finetune-april-2026/ Announcement April 2026 brings three major Reinforcement Fine-Tuning updates: Global Training for o4-mini with lower per-token rates across 12+ regions, new GPT-4.1 model graders for richer reward signals, and a comprehensive RFT best practices guide to help you ship specialized models faster. The post What’s New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Regions & Datacenters Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:34:46 Z 2026-04-16T19:34:46Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-mar-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-mar-2026/ Announcement March ships Foundry Agent Service GA with private networking, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini, Priority Processing, Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, SDK 2.0 GA across Python, JS/TS, Java, and .NET, Fireworks AI and NVIDIA Nemotron models, and third-party guardrails from Palo Alto and Zenity. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:33:53 Z 2026-04-09T23:33:53Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-ga/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-ga/ GA Ship local AI to millions of devices - fast, private on-device inference with no per-token costs. The post Foundry Local is now Generally Available appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z 2026-04-09T19:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-end-to-end/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-end-to-end/ Announcement Deploy and monitor an AI agent on Microsoft Foundry using the Azure Developer CLI (azd). This tutorial covers infrastructure scaffolding with Bicep, one-command deployment, local development, and real-time log streaming—all from Visual Studio Code. The post From code to cloud: Deploy an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry in minutes with azd appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:54:40 Z 2026-03-23T16:54:40Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/remote-mcp-server-preview-in-microsoft-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/remote-mcp-server-preview-in-microsoft-foundry/ Announcement Earlier this week we release the public preview for our Azure DevOps MCP Server. Today we are excited to let you know that the Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available to use in Microsoft Foundry. For those who are new to Foundry, Microsoft Foundry is a unified platform for building and managing AI powered […] The post Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure DevOps, Categories: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:48:10 Z 2026-03-19T17:48:10Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=557141 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=557141 GA Announcing general availability (GA) of the next-gen Foundry Agent Service—a redesigned API format and runtime experience designed to help teams build and operate agents that can move from prototype to production with confidence. This GA moment is anchore<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:45:45 Z 2026-03-17T17:45:45Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-fireworks-ai-on-microsoft-foundry-bringing-high-performance-low-latency-open-model-inference-to-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-fireworks-ai-on-microsoft-foundry-bringing-high-performance-low-latency-open-model-inference-to-azure Announcement Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure With Fireworks AI, we’re extending the Microsoft Foundry platform with high performance inference for state-of-the-art open models on Azure.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 2026-03-11T00:00:00+01:00 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-feb-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-feb-2026/ Announcement February brings Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 with 1M-token context, GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5, Grok 4.0 GA, the Microsoft Agent Framework reaching Release Candidate, and the Foundry REST API quietly going GA — laying the foundation for imminent SDK GA announcements across Python, .NET, JS/TS, and Java. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | February 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:08:31 Z 2026-03-06T23:08:31Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-gpt-5-4-in-microsoft-foundry/4499785 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-gpt-5-4-in-microsoft-foundry/4499785 Announcement Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:11:40 +0100 2026-03-05T19:11:40+01:00 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-dec-2025-jan-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-dec-2025-jan-2026/ Announcement Catch up on all the new models, audio updates, fine-tuning expansions, and SDK updates from Microsoft Foundry spanning December 2025 and January 2026 — including GPT-5.2, Codex Max, DeepSeek V3.2, FLUX.2, and the azure-ai-projects v2 beta consolidation. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Dec 2025 & Jan 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:01:09 Z 2026-02-19T01:01:09Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/unlocking-document-understanding-with-mistral-document-ai-in-microsoft-foundry/4495664 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/unlocking-document-understanding-with-mistral-document-ai-in-microsoft-foundry/4495664 Announcement Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry Enterprises today face a familiar yet formidable challenge: mountains of documents -contracts, invoices, reports, forms – remain locked in unstructured formats. Traditional OCR (optical character recognition) captures text, but often struggles with context, layout complexity, or multilingual content. The result?<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:00:07 +0100 2026-02-18T19:00:07+01:00 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-sonnet-4-6-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-performance-for-scale/4494873 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-sonnet-4-6-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-performance-for-scale/4494873 Announcement Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:08:39 +0100 2026-02-17T18:08:39+01:00 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/dpo-fine-tuning-using-microsoft-foundry-sdk/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/dpo-fine-tuning-using-microsoft-foundry-sdk/ Announcement In the rapidly evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs), achieving precise control over model behavior while maintaining quality has become a critical challenge. While models like GPT-4 demonstrate impressive capabilities, ensuring their outputs align with human preferences—whether for safety, helpfulness, or style—requires sophisticated fine-tuning techniques. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) represents a breakthrough approach that […] The post DPO Fine-Tuning Using Microsoft Foundry SDK appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:13:44 Z 2026-02-13T23:13:44Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=555870 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=555870 Preview Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s most advanced reasoning model to a secure, enterprise-ready platform built on Azure. With support for complex coding, knowledge work, and agent-driven workflows, including long-co<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:30:32 Z 2026-02-05T18:30:32Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/observability-in-generative-ai-building-trust-with-systematic-evaluation-in-micr/4492231 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/observability-in-generative-ai-building-trust-with-systematic-evaluation-in-micr/4492231 Announcement Why observability matters for generative AI Generative AI systems operate in complex and dynamic environments. Without systematic evaluation and monitoring, these systems can produce outputs that a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:43:00 Z 2026-02-05T07:43:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-opus-4-6-anthropics-powerful-model-for-coding-agents-and-enterprise-workflows-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry-on-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-opus-4-6-anthropics-powerful-model-for-coding-agents-and-enterprise-workflows-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry-on-azure Announcement Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry With Claude Opus 4.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry, developers can delegate complex tasks end‑to‑end and trust the AI to execute independently in production.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 Z 2026-02-05T00:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/advancing-ai-capabilities-in-azure-for-u-s-government-secret-and-top-secret-clouds/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/advancing-ai-capabilities-in-azure-for-u-s-government-secret-and-top-secret-clouds/ Announcement Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI capabilities to the nation’s most critical missions, securely, reliably, and at unprecedented speed. […] The post Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds appeared first on Azure Government.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:52:42 Z 2026-01-15T18:52:42Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/host-chatgpt-apps-on-azure-functions/4480696 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/host-chatgpt-apps-on-azure-functions/4480696 Announcement This blog post is for developers learning and building ChatGPT apps. It provides an overview of how these apps work, why build them, and how to host one on Azure Functions. Chat with ChatGPT apps ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Categories: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:03:00 Z 2025-12-23T19:03:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-oct-nov-2025/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-oct-nov-2025/ Announcement Azure AI Foundry is now Microsoft Foundry. Read the latest announcements about agents, models, tools and more. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October and November 2025 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:55:08 Z 2025-12-19T04:55:08Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-foundry-mcp-server-preview-speeding-up-ai-dev-with-microsoft-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-foundry-mcp-server-preview-speeding-up-ai-dev-with-microsoft-foundry/ Announcement MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard protocol that enables AI agents to securely connect with apps, data, and systems, supporting easy interoperability and seamless platform expansion. At Ignite, Microsoft Foundry introduced Foundry Tools, which serves as a central hub for discovering, connecting, and managing both public and private MCP tools securely, simplifying integration across […] The post Announcing Foundry MCP Server (preview) in the cloud, speeding up AI development with Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:15:11 Z 2025-12-03T19:15:11Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=526881 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=526881 GA Give your agents the power of cloud and redefining how developers interact with Azure. Built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), it can create a secure, standards-based bridge between Azure services—like AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, AI Foundry, and<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes Service, App Service, Cosmos DB, Container Apps, Categories: Services Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z 2025-11-06T15:45:17Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=502909 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=502909 Deprecation Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis customers until 9/25/2028. During this support window, cust<br />Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Retirements Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:15:03 Z 2025-10-23T14:15:03Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/from-timeouts-to-triumph-optimizing-gpt-4o-mini-for-speed-efficiency-and-reliabi/4461531 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/from-timeouts-to-triumph-optimizing-gpt-4o-mini-for-speed-efficiency-and-reliabi/4461531 Announcement The Challenge Large-scale generative AI deployments can stretch system boundaries — especially when thousands of concurrent requests require both high throughput and low latency. In one such...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:26:00 Z 2025-10-14T17:26:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/explore-microsoft-fabric-data-agent--azure-ai-foundry-for-agentic-solutions/4453709 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/explore-microsoft-fabric-data-agent--azure-ai-foundry-for-agentic-solutions/4453709 Announcement Contributors for this blogpost:  Jeet J & Ritaja S   Context & Objective  Over the past year, Gen AI apps have expanded significantly across enterprises. The agentic AI era is here, and the Micro...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:49:00 Z 2025-09-15T14:49:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/the-future-of-ai-is-responsible%E2%80%94and-azure-ai-foundry-is-leading-the-way/4453070 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/the-future-of-ai-is-responsible%E2%80%94and-azure-ai-foundry-is-leading-the-way/4453070 Announcement As a Microsoft Technical Trainer, I've spent years guiding learners through the evolving landscape of AI and Data. Throughout this journey, I've witnessed artificial intelligence revolutionize indust...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:10:00 Z 2025-09-11T18:10:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-gpt-oss-as-azure-ml-online-endpoint/4453087 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-gpt-oss-as-azure-ml-online-endpoint/4453087 Announcement As AI workloads grow in complexity and scale, deploying large language models like GPT-OSS efficiently becomes critical. In this post, we’ll walk through how to deploy GPT-OSS using Azure Machine Lea...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:23:00 Z 2025-09-10T22:23:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/o4-mini-reinforcement-fine-tuning-rft-now-generally-available-on-azure-ai-foundr/4452597 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/o4-mini-reinforcement-fine-tuning-rft-now-generally-available-on-azure-ai-foundr/4452597 GA At Build 2025, we announced Reinforcement Fine-tuning for o4-mini. Today, we are happy to promote RFT with o4-mini to General Availability on Azure AI Foundry. Customers can meaningfully fine-tune o4...<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:50:00 Z 2025-09-10T17:50:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-5-in-azure-ai-foundry-unlocking-new-possibilities-for-developers-and-enterpr/4451446 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-5-in-azure-ai-foundry-unlocking-new-possibilities-for-developers-and-enterpr/4451446 Announcement By Naomi Moneypenny, Head of Azure AI Foundry Direct Models and Trupti Parkar, Product Manager, Azure AI Foundry Direct     It’s been only 30 days since launch of the GPT-5 models on Azure AI Fou...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:00:00 Z 2025-09-08T18:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/azure-ai-foundry-agents-build-intelligent-goal-driven-ai-that-acts-autonomously/4450449 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/azure-ai-foundry-agents-build-intelligent-goal-driven-ai-that-acts-autonomously/4450449 Announcement Modern organizations need intelligent systems that go beyond basic automation by perceiving, reasoning, and acting independently. Agentic AI fulfills these requirements. Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:38:00 Z 2025-09-03T20:38:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/announcing-gpt-realtime-on-azure-ai-foundry/4449666 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/announcing-gpt-realtime-on-azure-ai-foundry/4449666 Announcement We are thrilled to announce that we are releasing today the general availability of our latest advancement in speech-to-speech technology: gpt-realtime. This new model represents a significant leap f...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:02:00 Z 2025-09-03T19:02:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/build-an-ai-image-caption-generator-on-azure-app-service-with-streamlit-and-gpt-/4450313 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/build-an-ai-image-caption-generator-on-azure-app-service-with-streamlit-and-gpt-/4450313 Announcement This tiny app just does one thing: upload an image → get a natural one-line caption. Under the hood: Azure AI Vision extracts high-confidence tags from the image. Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) tur...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, App Service, Categories: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:08:00 Z 2025-09-02T10:08:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/multi%E2%80%91agent-orchestration-with-azure-ai-foundry-from-idea-to-production/4449925 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/multi%E2%80%91agent-orchestration-with-azure-ai-foundry-from-idea-to-production/4449925 Announcement Multi‑agent systems turn complex, cross‑department processes into reliable, scalable AI workflows. Here’s a practical guide to designing, wiring, and shipping them with Azure AI Foundry—plus three re...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:59:00 Z 2025-08-31T14:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-fine-tuning-august-2025/4445176 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-fine-tuning-august-2025/4445176 Announcement   The Azure AI Foundry team continues to push the boundaries of model customization with powerful updates to its fine-tuning capabilities. August brings several new features—Pause & Resume, Cross-R...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:55:00 Z 2025-08-28T18:55:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-fine-tuning-august-2025/4448140 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-fine-tuning-august-2025/4448140 Announcement The Azure AI Foundry team continues to push the boundaries of model customization with powerful updates to its fine-tuning capabilities. August brings several new features—Pause & Resume, Cross-Regio...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:15:00 Z 2025-08-28T17:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-5-the-7-new-features-enabling-real-world-use-cases/4444839 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-5-the-7-new-features-enabling-real-world-use-cases/4444839 Announcement GPT-5 is a family of models, built to operate at their best together, leveraging Azure’s model-router. Whilst benchmarks can be useful, it is difficult to discern “what’s new with this model?” and un...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:19:00 Z 2025-08-18T11:19:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deepening-our-partnership-with-mistral-ai-on-azure-ai-foundry/4434656 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deepening-our-partnership-with-mistral-ai-on-azure-ai-foundry/4434656 Announcement We’re excited to mark a new chapter in our collaboration with Mistral AI, a leading European AI innovator, with the launch of Mistral Document AI in Azure AI Foundry Models. This marks the first in a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:14:00 Z 2025-08-15T17:14:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/exciting-news-azure-ai-blogs-have-come-together-in-the-new-azure-ai-foundry-blog/4442996 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/exciting-news-azure-ai-blogs-have-come-together-in-the-new-azure-ai-foundry-blog/4442996 Announcement We’re excited to share that we’ve entered a new chapter in how we bring you Azure AI content! To streamline your experience, several Azure AI Tech Community blogs have been consolidated into a single...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:36:00 Z 2025-08-13T18:36:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/black-forest-labs-flux-1-kontext-pro-and-flux1-1-pro-now-available-in-azure-ai-f/4434659 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/black-forest-labs-flux-1-kontext-pro-and-flux1-1-pro-now-available-in-azure-ai-f/4434659 Announcement We're excited to announce Azure AI Foundry Models now hosts FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] as direct from Azure, giving developers a first-party, enterprise-ready path to Black Forest Labs’ (...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:15:00 Z 2025-08-04T20:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-finetuning-july-2025/4438850 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-finetuning-july-2025/4438850 Announcement July Fine-Tuning Updates from Azure OpenAI Service: RFT Observability, Quick-Evals, Python Grader, and DevTier GA<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:11:00 Z 2025-08-01T04:11:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/ai-agent-mcp-tools-quickstart-to-mcp-tools-development-with-azure-ai-foundry-sdk/4432464 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/ai-agent-mcp-tools-quickstart-to-mcp-tools-development-with-azure-ai-foundry-sdk/4432464 Announcement As AI agents become more sophisticated, the need for seamless integration with powerful cloud-based tools grows. With the Azure AI Foundry SDK and MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, creates a dynami...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:13:00 Z 2025-07-11T20:13:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-safe-ai-powered-data-resilience-with-veeam-and-azure-ai-foundry/4427663 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-safe-ai-powered-data-resilience-with-veeam-and-azure-ai-foundry/4427663 Announcement Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) provides cloud-native, SaaS-based data resilience for mission-critical environments including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and Salesforce. As enterprise data protection need...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Entra ID, Categories: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:03:00 Z 2025-07-01T19:03:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearchitectureblog/modernizing-loan-processing-with-gen-ai-and-azure-ai-foundry-agentic-service/4423030 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearchitectureblog/modernizing-loan-processing-with-gen-ai-and-azure-ai-foundry-agentic-service/4423030 Announcement Scenario Once a loan application is submitted, financial institutions must process a variety of supporting documents—including pay stubs, tax returns, credit reports, and bank statements—before a l...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:59:00 Z 2025-06-16T18:59:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=495600 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=495600 GA Starting April 30, 2025, private endpoint approvals from the Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Foundry managed network will no longer be handled by the internal networking service. Moving forward, either the Azure AI Enterprise Network Connection Approv<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Management Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:00:11 Z 2025-06-03T16:00:11Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=491980 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=491980 GA Announcing the general availability of importing model endpoints from Azure AI Foundry directly into Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This capability simplifies onboarding of large language model (LLM) APIs by enabling seamless integration through the A<br />Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features, Management Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z 2025-05-23T15:00:30Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494663 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494663 GA Azure AI Foundry supports Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with the o4-mini model in Azure OpenAI, enabling adaptive learning for context-aware applications. Alongside RFT, we introduced Global Training, allowing fine-tuning from 12+ Azure regions at reduc<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z 2025-05-22T16:00:23Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494654 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494654 GA Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. It supports multi-agent workflows, allowing specialized agents to handle complex tasks, accelerate decisions, and boo<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Cosmos DB, Categories: Features, Services Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z 2025-05-22T16:00:23Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=493829 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=493829 GA Azure Functions integration with AI Foundry Agent service is now generally available. Integrating Azure Functions with AI Foundry Agent service enables you to build intelligent, event-driven applications that are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. Azur<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Categories: Features, Services Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z 2025-05-21T03:30:39Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=492104 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=492104 Preview Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models in public preview. Azure AI Foundry Models have two deployment options - serverless APIs and managed compute. Azure Container Apps serverless GPU offers a balanced deployment option<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Container Apps, Categories: Features Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z 2025-05-21T03:30:39Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494248 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=494248 Preview Foundry Local makes it easy to run AI models, tools and agents directly on-device, whether Windows 11 or MacOS . Foundry Local includes model inferencing, models, agents as a service, and model playground for fast and efficient local Al development. This<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:01 Z 2025-05-20T00:00:01Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=490296 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=490296 Preview You can now easily create AI agents in Azure AI Foundry with Azure Databricks data. Using the new Azure Databricks Azure AI Foundry connector, you can: Connect Azure AI Foundry agents with Azure Databricks for real-time data processing. Build and dep<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Mon, 19 May 2025 18:45:26 Z 2025-05-19T18:45:26Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/unlock-cost-savings-with-azure-ai-foundry-provisioned-throughput-reservations/4414647 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/unlock-cost-savings-with-azure-ai-foundry-provisioned-throughput-reservations/4414647 Announcement In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, businesses are constantly seeking ways to optimize their costs and streamline their operations while leveraging cutting-edge technologies. To he...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:15:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/announcing-the-availability-of-azure-databricks-connector-in-azure-ai-foundry/4415263 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/announcing-the-availability-of-azure-databricks-connector-in-azure-ai-foundry/4415263 Announcement At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for runn...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/introducing-built-in-agentops-tools-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414389 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/introducing-built-in-agentops-tools-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414389 Announcement A New Era of Agent Intelligence We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Tracing, Evaluation, and Monitoring in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, features designed to revolutionize how develo...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/expand-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service-with-more-knowledge-and-action-tools/4414404 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/expand-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service-with-more-knowledge-and-action-tools/4414404 Announcement Customers often face challenges deploying AI agents that can handle complex, real-world scenarios due to limited tool access. To empower AI agents with more capabilities, Azure AI Foundry Agent Servi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-a-digital-workforce-with-multi-agents-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414671 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-a-digital-workforce-with-multi-agents-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414671 Announcement We're thrilled to introduce several new multi-agent capabilities in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, including Connected Agents, Multi-Agent Workflows, MCP and A2A Support, and the Agent Catalog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414352 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service/4414352 GA Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to create enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems with enhanced reliability, security, and flexibility.<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z 2025-05-19T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/%F0%9F%93%A2announcement-power-your-agents-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service-with-azure-lo/4414995 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/%F0%9F%93%A2announcement-power-your-agents-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service-with-azure-lo/4414995 Announcement We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of two major integrations that bring the power of Azure Logic Apps to AI Agents in Foundry: Logic Apps as tools: You can now use Logic Apps workflows—...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 15:56:00 Z 2025-05-19T15:56:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/announcing-the-availability-of-azure-databricks-connector-in-azure-ai-foundry/4414889 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/announcing-the-availability-of-azure-databricks-connector-in-azure-ai-foundry/4414889 Announcement At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for ru...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 19 May 2025 03:28:00 Z 2025-05-19T03:28:00Z https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/accelerate-ai-on-oracle-databases-with-open-mirroring-fabric-data-agent-and-azure-ai-foundry/ https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/accelerate-ai-on-oracle-databases-with-open-mirroring-fabric-data-agent-and-azure-ai-foundry/ Announcement Additional contributors: Venkat Ramakrishnan, Amir Jafari, Wilson Lee, Maraki Ketema As organizations accelerate their hybrid cloud adoption strategies, Oracle Database@Azure has emerged as a critical platform for running Oracle database workloads using Exadata, Autonomous, Exadata Exascale and Base databases for the enterprise. However, deriving real-time, AI-powered insights in hybrid settings has long been challenging due … Continue reading “Accelerate AI on Oracle Databases with Open Mirroring, Fabric Data Agent, and Azure AI Foundry”<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 12 May 2025 11:00:00 Z 2025-05-12T11:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/automating-azure-ai-foundry-deployment-with-iac-leveraging-bicep-and-github-work/4412155 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/automating-azure-ai-foundry-deployment-with-iac-leveraging-bicep-and-github-work/4412155 Announcement Azure AI Foundry offers a unified platform that streamlines enterprise AI operations, model development, and application deployment. It brings together robust infrastructure and intuitive tools, empo...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 09 May 2025 05:32:00 Z 2025-05-09T05:32:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlocking-the-power-of-model-distillation-through-azure-ai-foundry/4411554 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlocking-the-power-of-model-distillation-through-azure-ai-foundry/4411554 Announcement AI distillation is a powerful technique in machine learning that involves transferring knowledge from a large, complex model (often called the "teacher") to a smaller, more efficient "student" model....<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 07 May 2025 21:25:00 Z 2025-05-07T21:25:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/navigating-ai-solutions-microsoft-copilot-studio-vs-azure-ai-foundry/4411678 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/navigating-ai-solutions-microsoft-copilot-studio-vs-azure-ai-foundry/4411678 Announcement Are you looking to build custom Copilots but unsure about the differences between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry? As a Microsoft Technical Trainer with over a decade of experience, I've spent th...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 07 May 2025 19:07:00 Z 2025-05-07T19:07:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/azure-openai-o-series--gpt-4-1-models-now-available-in-azure-ai-agent-service/4411633 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/azure-openai-o-series--gpt-4-1-models-now-available-in-azure-ai-agent-service/4411633 Announcement New Models Available!   We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the following Azure OpenAI Service models for use in the Azure AI Agent Service, starting 5/7:  o1  o3-mini  ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 07 May 2025 16:58:00 Z 2025-05-07T16:58:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/real-time-speech-transcription-with-gpt-4o-transcribe-and-gpt-4o-mini-transcribe/4410353 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/real-time-speech-transcription-with-gpt-4o-transcribe-and-gpt-4o-mini-transcribe/4410353 Announcement Azure OpenAI has expanded its speech recognition capabilities with two powerful models: GPT-4o-transcribe and GPT-4o-mini-transcribe. These models also leverage WebSocket connections to enable real-t...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 02 May 2025 13:07:00 Z 2025-05-02T13:07:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=492209 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=492209 Preview We’re excited to announce that Azure Logic Apps connectors and templates are now available as tools within the AI Agent Service in Foundry. This integration brings the power of enterprise-grade integration to AI agents, enabling them to interact with hund<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 01 May 2025 20:30:19 Z 2025-05-01T20:30:19Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/advancing-fine-tuning-in-azure-ai-foundry-april-2025-updates/4408745 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/advancing-fine-tuning-in-azure-ai-foundry-april-2025-updates/4408745 Announcement Azure AI Foundry's April 2025 updates introduce new capabilities to streamline, scale, and enhance fine-tuning workflows for developers and ML practitioners. Key updates include fine-tuning support f...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:44:00 Z 2025-04-28T20:44:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/tracing-your-semantic-kernel-agents-with-azure-ai-foundry/4407144 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/tracing-your-semantic-kernel-agents-with-azure-ai-foundry/4407144 Announcement Many of us have encountered questions about monitoring Semantic Kernel Agents. As developers, we want to understand several aspects: the prompts sent by the Kernel to the AI Service, the behind-the-s...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:53:00 Z 2025-04-23T17:53:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/llama-4-is-now-available-in-azure-databricks/4401277 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/analyticsonazure/llama-4-is-now-available-in-azure-databricks/4401277 Announcement We are excited to announce the availability of Meta's Llama 4 in Azure Databricks.  As you know, enterprises all over the world already use Llama models in Azure Databricks to power AI enterpr...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:31:00 Z 2025-04-06T00:31:00Z https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/empowering-agentic-ai-by-integrating-fabric-with-azure-ai-foundry/ https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/empowering-agentic-ai-by-integrating-fabric-with-azure-ai-foundry/ Announcement Additional author: Joanne Wong Data plays a critical role in agentic AI, enabling AI agents to operate independently, make informed decisions, and take meaningful actions. And that’s why we are expanding capabilities and deepening integrations between our data and AI platforms.   Starting today, organizations can use Azure AI Foundry to connect customized, conversational agents, created … Continue reading “Empowering agentic AI by integrating Fabric with Azure AI Foundry”<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:45:00 Z 2025-03-31T07:45:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unleashing-innovation-ai-agent-development-with-azure-ai-foundry/4384432 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unleashing-innovation-ai-agent-development-with-azure-ai-foundry/4384432 Announcement Creating AI agents using Azure AI Foundry is a game-changer for businesses and developers looking to harness the power of artificial intelligence. These AI agents can automate complex tasks, provide ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:45:00 Z 2025-03-05T23:45:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearchitectureblog/azure-ai-foundry-github-copilot-fabric-and-more-to-analyze-usage-stats-from-util/4369047 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearchitectureblog/azure-ai-foundry-github-copilot-fabric-and-more-to-analyze-usage-stats-from-util/4369047 Announcement Overview With the introduction of Azure AI Foundry, integrating various AI services to streamline AI solution development and deployment of Agentic AI Workflow solutions like multi-modal, multi-mod...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:15:00 Z 2025-02-19T18:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/harnessing-the-power-of-azure-ai-foundry-with-ai-agents-azure-ai-and-openai-smar/4375260 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/harnessing-the-power-of-azure-ai-foundry-with-ai-agents-azure-ai-and-openai-smar/4375260 Announcement Introduction:  AI is transforming how we interact with data, and one great example of this is the SmartWeather AI Agent. This AI-powered weather reporting system integrates Azure AI and Azure OpenAI'...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:59:00 Z 2025-02-08T08:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/introducing-the-gpt-4o-mini-audio-models-adding-more-choice-to-audio-enhanced-ai/4373920 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/introducing-the-gpt-4o-mini-audio-models-adding-more-choice-to-audio-enhanced-ai/4373920 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:00:00 Z 2025-02-05T20:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/voice-bot-gpt-4o-realtime-best-practices---a-learning-from-customer-journey/4373584 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/voice-bot-gpt-4o-realtime-best-practices---a-learning-from-customer-journey/4373584 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:49:00 Z 2025-02-04T04:49:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-deepseek-and-azure/4371635 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-deepseek-and-azure/4371635 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:13:00 Z 2025-01-29T08:13:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/azure--deepseek--a-perfect-match-for-ai-innovation/4371635 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/azure--deepseek--a-perfect-match-for-ai-innovation/4371635 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:13:00 Z 2025-01-29T08:13:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/working-with-the-realtime-api-of-gpt-4o-in-python/4360873 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/working-with-the-realtime-api-of-gpt-4o-in-python/4360873 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:59:00 Z 2024-12-30T11:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-an-ai-assistant-using-gpt-4o-audio-preview-api/4358986 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-an-ai-assistant-using-gpt-4o-audio-preview-api/4358986 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:08:00 Z 2024-12-19T05:08:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469221 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469221 Preview Risk and safety evaluations for images and multimodal content are now available in public preview in Azure AI Foundry. These evaluations can help organizations assess the frequency and severity of harmful content in human and AI-generated outputs to prior<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:00:21 Z 2024-12-17T08:00:21Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-custom-ai-speech-models-with-phi-3-and-synthetic-data/4356729 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/building-custom-ai-speech-models-with-phi-3-and-synthetic-data/4356729 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:21:00 Z 2024-12-12T08:21:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/extracting-handwritten-corrections-with-azure-ai-foundrys-latest-tools/4352113 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/extracting-handwritten-corrections-with-azure-ai-foundrys-latest-tools/4352113 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:00:00 Z 2024-12-06T19:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-azure-ai-foundry/4352630 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-azure-ai-foundry/4352630 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:44:00 Z 2024-12-04T21:44:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-azure-ai-foundry/4352629 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/unlock-the-power-of-ai-with-azure-ai-foundry/4352629 Announcement <br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:44:00 Z 2024-12-04T21:44:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469238 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469238 GA Evaluations for quality metrics are now generally available in Azure AI Foundry, accessible through the code-first Azure AI Foundry SDK experience and no-code Azure AI Foundry portal. These evaluators provide a scalable way to assess text-based models and<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z 2024-11-19T13:30:46Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469216 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=469216 GA Management center, now available in Azure AI Foundry portal, provides cross-functional teams with simplified, centralized management and governance controls for GenAI applications. Now, AI development, operations, and compliance teams can easily create, m<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features, Management Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z 2024-11-19T13:30:46Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=protected-material-text-evaluations-public-preview https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=protected-material-text-evaluations-public-preview Preview Risk and safety evaluations for protected material (text) are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences. Because foundation models are typically trained using a massive corpus of data, users are understanda<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T07:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=rouge-bleu-meteor-gleu-evaluations-public-preview https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=rouge-bleu-meteor-gleu-evaluations-public-preview Preview New quality evaluations are now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI SDK today with UI support coming in October 2024. ROUGE, BLEU, METEOR, and GLEU are popular math-based metrics that can help AI developers assess text-based outpu<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T07:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=simulate-everyday-interactions-with-your-genai-app-public-preview https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=simulate-everyday-interactions-with-your-genai-app-public-preview Preview A synthetic data generator and simulator for non-adversarial tasks is now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI evaluation SDK. One of the biggest evaluation challenges we hear from customers is that they do not have comprehensive,<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T07:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=xpia-evaluations-public-preview https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=xpia-evaluations-public-preview Preview Risk and safety evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences. Indirect prompt injection attacks (also known as cross-domain prompt injection attacks or XPI<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T07:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Simulate-everyday-interactions-with-your-GenAI-App-Public-Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Simulate-everyday-interactions-with-your-GenAI-App-Public-Preview Preview <br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/ROUGE-BLEU-METEOR-GLEU-Evaluations-Public-Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/ROUGE-BLEU-METEOR-GLEU-Evaluations-Public-Preview Preview <br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Protected-Material-Text-Evaluations-Public-Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Protected-Material-Text-Evaluations-Public-Preview Preview <br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/XPIA-Evaluations-Public-Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/XPIA-Evaluations-Public-Preview Preview <br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-10-03T00:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/announcing-the-availability-of-phi-3-5-moe-in-azure-ai-studio/4256278 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/announcing-the-availability-of-phi-3-5-moe-in-azure-ai-studio/4256278 Announcement In August 2024, we welcomed the latest addition to the Phi model family, Phi-3.5-MoE, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 16 experts and 6.6B active parameters. The introduction of this model has been met with enthusiasm and praise from our users, who have acknowledged its competitive performance, multi-lingual capability, robust safety measures, and excelling over larger models while upholding Phi models efficacy. Today, we are proud to announce that the Phi-3.5-MoE model is now available through Serverless API deployment method in Azure AI Studio (Figure 1) and GitHub (Figure 2). By providing access to the model through Serverless API, we aim to simplify the deployment process and reduce the overhead associated with managing infrastructure. This advancement represents a significant step forward in making our state-of-the-art deep learning models more accessible and easier to integrate into various applications for users and developers everywhere. Key benefits include: Scalability: Easily scale your usage based on demand without worrying about underlying hardware constraints. Phi-3.5-MoE and other Phi-3.5 models are available in East US 2, East US, North Central US, South Central US, West US 3, West US, and Sweden Central regions. Cost Efficiency: Pay only for the resource you use, ensuring cost-effective operation, at $0.00013 per 1K input tokens and $0.00052 per 1K output tokens. Ease of Integration: Seamlessly integrate Phi-3.5-MoE into your existing workflows and applications with minimal effort. Please follow the quick start guide on how to deploy and use the Phi family of models in Azure AI Studio and GitHub from our Phi-3 Cookbook. Figure 1: Deploy the Phi-3.5-MoE model using Serverless API in Azure AI Studio. Figure 2: The Phi-3.5-MoE playground experience in GitHub. While we celebrate the release of Phi-3.5-MoE, we want to take this opportunity to highlight the complexities in training such models. Mixture of Experts (MoE) models can sc<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Regions & Datacenters Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:00:00 Z 2024-09-27T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/tackle-complex-llm-decision-making-with-language-agent-tree/4228416 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/tackle-complex-llm-decision-making-with-language-agent-tree/4228416 Announcement Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional abilities in performing natural language tasks that involve complex reasoning. As a result, these models have evolved to function as agents capable of planning, strategising, and solving complex problems. However, challenges persist when it comes to making decisions under uncertainty, where outcomes are not deterministic, or when adaptive decision-making is required in changing environments, especially in multi-step scenarios where each step influences the next. We need more advanced capabilities… This is where GPT-4’s advanced reasoning capabilities and Language Agent Tree Search (LATS) come together to address these challenges. LATS incorporates a dynamic, tree-based search methodology that enhances the reasoning capabilities of GPT-4O. By integrating Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with LLMs, LATS unifies reasoning, acting, and planning, creating a more deliberate and adaptive problem-solving framework. This powerful combination allows for improved decision-making and more robust handling of complex tasks, setting a new standard in the deployment of language models as autonomous agents.   Is search the missing piece in GenAI problem solving? Computational problem solving can be broadly defined as “search through a combinatorial problem space”, represented as a tree. Depth-First Search (DFS)and Breadth-First Search (BFS) are fundamental methods for exploring such solution spaces. A notable example of the power of deep search is AlphaGo’s “Move 37,” which showcased how innovative, human-surpassing solutions can emerge from extensive exploration. Unlike traditional methods that follow predefined paths, LLMs can dynamically generate new branches within the solution space by predicting potential outcomes, strategies, or actions based on context. This capability allows LLMs to not only navigate but also expand the problem space, making them exceptionally powerful in situations where the problem structure i<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:43:44 Z 2024-08-26T18:43:44Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/azure-openai-fedramp-high-for-government/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/azure-openai-fedramp-high-for-government/ Announcement Editor’s note (September 3, 2024): this post has been updated to note that Azure OpenAI has been approved as a service within the DOD IL4 and IL5 Provisional Authorization for Azure Government by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).  As part of our ongoing effort to deliver the latest AI innovations to our government customers, our […] The post Azure OpenAI, including GPT-4o, Approved as a Service within the FedRAMP High Authorization for Azure Government appeared first on Azure Government.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:00:58 Z 2024-08-12T13:00:58Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/phi-3-vision-catalyzing-multimodal-innovation/4170251 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/phi-3-vision-catalyzing-multimodal-innovation/4170251 Announcement Co-authors: Priya Kedia, Michael Tremeer Contributors: Ranjani Mani Phi-3 Vision, a lightweight and state-of-the-art open multimodal model, is a significant advancement in Microsoft's AI offerings. Developed with a focus on producing a high-quality, reasoning focused model, Phi-3 Vision utilizes synthetic data and curated publicly available web data to ensure its robustness and versatility. At only 4.2 billion parameters, it strikes an impressive balance between performance and efficiency, making it an attractive option for a wide range of applications. As the first multimodal model in the Phi-3 family, Phi-3 Vision extends beyond the capabilities of its predecessors – Phi-3-mini, Phi-3-small, and Phi-3-medium – by seamlessly blending language and visual input. It boasts a context length of 128K tokens, allowing it to support complex and nuanced interactions. Designed with the intention to run on devices, Phi-3 Vision provides the benefits of offline operation, cost-effectiveness, and user privacy. Phi-3 Vision has demonstrated versatility across various use cases, including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Image Captioning, Table Parsing, and Reading Comprehension on Scanned Documents, among others. Its ability to provide high-quality reasoning with both visual and text input capabilities will drive innovation and lead to the development of new applications that are both transformative and sustainable. As an example, here is a quick demo showcasing how car footage can be analyzed to assess vehicle damages on an edge device, giving instant feedback to end user. When paired together with a larger LLM like GPT-4o, Phi-3 can form part of hybrid workflow that combines the efficiencies of Phi-3 for simpler tasks with the power of GPT-4o for more challenges tasks, unlocking the best of both worlds in a multi-step pipeline.   Market Trends The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is in a state of rapid evolution, and within this space, Microsoft's Phi-3-Vi<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:56:51 Z 2024-06-18T03:56:51Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/migrating-ocr-enhancement-from-gpt-4-turbo-vision-preview-to-gpt/4160050 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/migrating-ocr-enhancement-from-gpt-4-turbo-vision-preview-to-gpt/4160050 Announcement The introduction of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enhancement as a component of the GPT-4 Turbo Vision Preview was aimed at generating higher-quality responses for dense texts, transformed images, and number-heavy financial documents. Although, the recent announcement regarding the GPT-4 Turbo 2024-04-09 General Availability (GA) model indicated that the OCR enhancement is not included in this GA version. This blog post delves into the details of how OCR enhancement functions, the additional system prompts used for OCR enhancement, and provides a code snippet that demonstrates how to replicate the OCR enhancement behavior in the GPT-4 Turbo 2024-04-09 GA model by modifying the input prompt.  How OCR enhancement works  OCR enhancement modifies input messages before sending them to the GPT-4 Vision model using the following steps:  Find the user prompt message that contains an image. Call the OCR API for this image and obtain the OCR text. Add the OCR text as additional content to the user prompt message. Add an additional system prompt message to instruct the model on how to leverage the OCR text to improve the accuracy of the result. Why OCR enhancement is not supported in GA  Although OCR enhancement functionality provides simplicity by orchestrating OCR API call and prompt modification, it lacks customization of OCR technology and prompt instructions. Running the OCR enhancement process manually provides the following benefits:  Flexibility to choose a different version of OCR (i.e., documents with complex layout and table may benefit from markdown support instead of using plain text). Flexibility to modify system instructions how OCR text is leveraged by GPT model (i.e., based on document type/quality/etc, leverage OCR text for numbers extraction but rely on GPT vision for signature detection, etc). Agility to run OCR enhancement for prompt with multiple images (i.e., multi-page documents, comparison scenario, etc). Preview<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:16:30 Z 2024-06-05T17:16:30Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/using-cohere-binary-embeddings-in-azure-ai-search-and-command-r/4158111 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/using-cohere-binary-embeddings-in-azure-ai-search-and-command-r/4158111 Announcement In April 2024, we proudly announced our partnership with Cohere, allowing customers to seamlessly leverage Cohere models via the Azure AI Studio Model Catalog, as part of the Models as a Service (MaaS) offering. At Build 2024, Azure AI Search launched support for Binary Vectors. In this blog, we are excited to continue from our previous discussion on int8 embeddings and highlight two powerful new capabilities: utilizing Cohere Binary Embeddings in Azure AI Search for optimized storage and search, and employing the Cohere Command R+ model as a Large Language Model (LLM) for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).  Cohere Binary Embeddings via Azure AI Studio Binary vector embeddings use a single bit per dimension, making them much more compact than vectors using floats or int8, while still yielding surprisingly good quality given the size reduction. Cohere's binary embeddings offer substantial efficiency, enabling you to store and search vast datasets more cost-effectively. This capability can achieve significant memory reduction, allowing more vectors to fit within Azure AI Search units or enabling the use of lower SKUs, thus improving cost efficiency and supporting larger indexes. "Cohere's binary embeddings available in Azure AI Search provide a powerful combination of memory efficiency and search quality, ideal for advanced AI applications." - Nils Reimers, Cohere's Director of Machine Learning. With int8 and binary embeddings, customers can achieve up to a 32x reduction in vector size under optimal conditions, translating to improved cost efficiency and the ability to handle larger datasets. Read the full announcement from Cohere here: Cohere int8 & binary Embeddings - Scale Your Vector Database to Large Datasets Cohere Command R+ Model for RAG The Cohere Command R+ model is a state-of-the-art language model that can be used for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This approach combines retrieval of relevant documents with the generation capab<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Services Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:33:11 Z 2024-06-04T11:33:11Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/evaluation-flows-for-large-language-models-llm-in-azure-ai/4153110 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiazureaiservicesblog/evaluation-flows-for-large-language-models-llm-in-azure-ai/4153110 Announcement Large Language Models (LLMs) are incredibly useful for generating natural language texts for tasks like summarization, translation, question answering, and text generation. However, they aren't always perfect and can sometimes produce outputs that are inaccurate, irrelevant, biased, or even harmful. That's why it's super important to evaluate the outcomes from LLMs to ensure they meet the quality and ethical standards required for their intended use. Imagine you're using an LLM to help create content for a website. Without proper evaluation, the model might generate text that doesn't quite fit the tone you're looking for, or worse, it might include biased or incorrect information. This is where evaluation flows come in handy. These systematic procedures help you assess and improve the LLM's outputs, making it easier to spot and fix errors, biases, and potential risks. Plus, evaluation flows can provide valuable feedback and guidance, helping developers and users align the LLM's performance with business goals and user expectations. By incorporating evaluation steps, you can ensure a more user-friendly and reliable experience for everyone involved. In this article, we will explain what evaluation flows are, and how we can implement them in Azure AI Studio. We will start by pointing out the motivations for evaluating outcomes from LLMs and provide some examples of business situations where the absence of evaluation can incur in problems for the business. Then, we will describe the main components and steps of evaluation flows and show how to use Azure AI Studio to create and execute evaluation flows for LLMs. Finally, we will discuss some best practices and challenges of evaluation flows and provide some resources for further learning. Motivations for Evaluating Outcomes from LLMs  Evaluating the outcomes from Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for several reasons. First and foremost, it ensures the quality and accuracy of the texts they generate. Imagine<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Tue, 28 May 2024 13:44:28 Z 2024-05-28T13:44:28Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-models-added-to-the-phi-3-family-available-on-microsoft-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-models-added-to-the-phi-3-family-available-on-microsoft-azure Announcement At Microsoft Build 2024, we are excited to add new models to the Phi-3 family of small, open models developed by Microsoft.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Tue, 21 May 2024 08:30:00 -0700 2024-05-21T08:30:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/from-code-to-production-new-ways-azure-helps-you-build-transformational-ai-experiences https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/from-code-to-production-new-ways-azure-helps-you-build-transformational-ai-experiences Announcement What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Tue, 21 May 2024 08:30:00 -0700 2024-05-21T08:30:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-machine-learning-general-availability-for-build-2024 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-machine-learning-general-availability-for-build-2024 GA One new feature now available in GA enables you to create and customize AI workflows using task-specific Language skills/models to complete business use cases. <br />Update Type: GA, Services: Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-machine-learning-public-preview-for-build-2024 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-machine-learning-public-preview-for-build-2024 Preview Three features now available in preview enable you to enjoy simplified management of the customer-managed key (CMK) encrypted workspace, take advantage of our content filtering system alongside models that you can access through Models as a Service, and bring in indexes from Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Pinecone for use in RAG workflows. <br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Categories: Features Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt-4o-openais-new-flagship-multimodal-model-now-in-preview-on-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt-4o-openais-new-flagship-multimodal-model-now-in-preview-on-azure Announcement Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model on Azure AI. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 13 May 2024 11:00:00 -0700 2024-05-13T11:00:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-phi-3-redefining-whats-possible-with-slms https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-phi-3-redefining-whats-possible-with-slms Announcement We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of small open models with the capability of 10 times larger models, developed by Microsoft and optimized for Azure AI.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Categories: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:30:00 -0700 2024-04-23T12:30:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-tools-in-azure-ai-to-help-you-build-more-secure-and-trustworthy-generative-ai-applications https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-tools-in-azure-ai-to-help-you-build-more-secure-and-trustworthy-generative-ai-applications Announcement To help customers meet new AI quality and safety challenges, we’re announcing new tools now available or coming soon to Azure AI Studio for generative AI app developers.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Security Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0700 2024-03-28T06:00:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ai-studio-safety-evaluations https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ai-studio-safety-evaluations Preview Measure your generative AI application’s susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and to producing unsafe content, so you can implement effective mitigations and go from prototype to production with confidence.<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z 2024-03-28T00:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-nvidia-partnership-continues-to-deliver-on-the-promise-of-ai https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-nvidia-partnership-continues-to-deliver-on-the-promise-of-ai Announcement At NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA are announcing new offerings across a breadth of solution areas from leading AI infrastructure to new platform integrations, and industry breakthroughs. The news expands our long-standing collaboration, which paved the way for revolutionary AI innovations that customers are now bringing to fruition.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:00:00 -0700 2024-03-18T15:00:00-07:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-in-azure-data-ai-and-digital-applications-data-operates-as-the-currency-of-ai https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-in-azure-data-ai-and-digital-applications-data-operates-as-the-currency-of-ai Announcement This month, like every month, I’m sharing a few of the latest updates and resources to help reinforce how Azure can fuel your innovation through data, AI, and digital application solutions.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Foundry, Azure Migrate, Categories: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0800 2024-03-05T09:00:00-08:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure Announcement Today, we are announcing a multi-year partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI. We are fueled by a steadfast dedication to innovation and practical applications, bridging the gap between pioneering research and real-world solutions.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Categories: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:10:00 -0800 2024-02-26T06:10:00-08:00