Knowledge catalogue
Learn how Azure Content Understanding prebuilt analyzers combine domain knowledge with grounding and confidence, and what Advanced Contextualization preview benchmarks show about quality, modeled cost
Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 improves multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lowers latency, and simplifies domain-specific customization with enhanced phrase lists. The post Announcing Az
Catch up on July and August in Microsoft Foundry: stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools on Azure-hosted deployments, Model Router updates, local inference improvements, and the SDK m
Structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search are now available for Claude models hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, turning a model endpoint into a production agent pla
Enterprise content is no longer just something people consume. As organizations increasingly rely on AI to extract and act on information from documents, images, audio, and video, Azure Content Unders
Enterprise content is no longer just something people read. AI apps and agents are only as useful as the information they can understand, yet much of the world’s enterprise knowledge is locked in docu
Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer'
Why edge AI development is still hard AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, pri
Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models. The post Announcing Found
9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic.
Azure Content Understanding (CU) in Foundry Tools is Microsoft’s comprehensive content AI service. It ingests diverse data types — documents, audio, images, and video — and extracts the most critical
Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production. AI adoption accelerates, so does the number of tools available to them. Discovering, managing and securing the right too
Learn how new Document Translation capabilities in Azure Translator, available in Foundry Tools, help developers translate images, PDFs, Office files, DITA, XLIFF, and future LLM-powered document work
The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work. Organizations have moved quickly from experimenting with AI agents to building ones that perform complex business
With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same th
Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability. Enterprise teams nee
Learn a practical model lifecycle for Microsoft Foundry: select the right model, evaluate quality, optimize cost, operate safely, and improve as production needs change. The post A Developer’s Guide t
Ship multilingual features in hours, not months Your translation workflow probably looks like this: one vendor for real-time chat, another for document translation, a custom LLM integration for nuance
Your healthcare app needs “La médica” not “El médico.” Your legal documents need precise terminology, not generic translations. When domain-specific language matters, generic LLM translation falls sho
Learn how Microsoft helps developers build trustworthy AI agents with open evaluations, portable runtime controls, production observability, and security workflows that work across frameworks. The pos
Learn how Microsoft Foundry helps developers build, deploy, and operate production-ready agents with Agent Framework, Toolboxes, hosted agents, Microsoft 365 distribution, observability, and agent opt
Learn how Foundry IQ helps developers ground agents with unified enterprise knowledge, serverless retrieval, improved agentic retrieval quality, and production-ready security. The post Foundry IQ: Bui
A few weeks ago, we announced the public preview refresh of hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service — a fundamentally re-imagined agent runtime built for operationalizing production-grade AI agents in
Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ, new models, managed compute, and trust,
May ships trace-based evaluation for any agent on any cloud, Grok 4.3 and DeepSeek V4 in the model catalog, GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning at gated GA, three Microsoft Research on-device agent models
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 mo
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 f
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 agen
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 deliv
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
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 acros
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 c
Microsoft Foundry Local is now generally available as an end-to-end local AI solution that enables developers to bring AI inference directly into their applications with no cloud dependency, no net...
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