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Imagine a platform where every developer can unlock the full spectrum of AI: text, images, audio, and video. This OpenAI DevDay, Azure AI Foundry is making that vision real. With today’s launch of OpenAI GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini, plus major safety upgrades to GPT-5, you now have the ultimate toolkit to create, experiment, and scale multimodal solutions. The post Unleash your creativity at scale: Azure AI Foundry’s multimodal revolution appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft Agent Framework, now in public preview, and new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems. The post Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry—delivering powerful reasoning within a platform designed for business-ready safety and control. The post Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

A new breed of industry-leading company is taking shape — Frontier Firms. These organizations blend human ambition with AI-powered technology to reshape how innovation is scaled, work is orchestrated and value is created. They’re accelerating AI transformation to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business processes and unlock creativity and innovation. The post Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace. appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Unlock enterprise value with an open, secure, and interoperable AI agent ecosystem. The post Agent Factory: Designing the open agentic web stack appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Cobalt 100 systems are designed to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for a wide range of workloads. The post How Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are powering real-world solutions, delivering performance and efficiency results appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

At the Migrate and Modernize Summit, we’re announcing a comprehensive set of agentic AI solutions and offerings to accelerate transformation and reduce friction. The post Accelerate migration and modernization with agentic AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin, we also have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US. The post Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT Platforms, highlighting its commitment to delivering intelligent, secure, and scalable industrial solutions with Azure. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms  appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Azure AI Foundry brings together security, safety, and governance in a layered process enterprises can follow to build trust in their agents. The post Agent Factory: Creating a blueprint for safe and secure AI agents appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.