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Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026
Learn how Microsoft Foundry helps developers build, deploy, and operate production-ready agents with Agent Framework, Toolboxes, hosted agents, Microsoft 365 di...
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
Learn how Foundry IQ helps developers ground agents with unified enterprise knowledge, serverless retrieval, improved agentic retrieval quality, and production-...
What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition
Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ,...
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Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding: a practical guide
Compare Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding across extraction architectures, workload fit, Layout capabilities, deployment options, and practical evaluation criteria.
Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era
Learn why stronger AI models make trustworthy content extraction more important, how Azure Content Understanding and Azure Document Intelligence serve different needs, and what comes next.
Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service
Define and attach an outbound policy to a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry, observe calls in Audit, and verify allowed and denied destinations under Enforced mode.
From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available
Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and continue tasks over time. An agent might triage a newly opened GitHub issue, respond when a message appears in a Microsoft Teams channel, prepare a report every morning, or check back on a long-running process until it finishes. Building that automation yourself is difficult. You need schedulers, event listeners, webhooks, queues, infrastructure, authentication, run history, and monitoring—before you can focus on t...
Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building
Foundry Dev Pack prepares your machine for Microsoft Foundry development with an all-in-one installer for the tools you need across the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents.
Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 2607: Better Multilingual Accuracy, Easier Customization
Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 improves multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lowers latency, and simplifies domain-specific customization with enhanced phrase lists.
What’s new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026
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 migrations worth checking before you upgrade.
From single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry
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 platform.
From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026
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 documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video. The latest Azure Content Understanding updates help developers turn that content into structured, grounded data with less custom processing. This release brings broader support for the GPT-5 model series, lower token usage, improved confidence scoring, new synchronous APIs for Read and Layout, advanced contextualization for higher-quality extraction, new tax-focused pre...
