Hybrid AI Agents
Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry
We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new ...
Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local
Why edge AI development is still hard
AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver A...
Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework
9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier
Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in...
Expanding the Reach of Document Translation – New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build
Our commitment to advancing cross-language communication takes another major step forward at Microsoft Build. Azure Translator in Found...
Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry
Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry
Today we’re announcing Managed Compute in Microsoft Foundry, a...
Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service
With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your ag...
Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready
Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another require...
Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry
Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production. AI adoption accelerates, so does the number of tools av...
From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry
The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work.
Organizations have moved quickly from experiment...
Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026
Azure Content Understanding (CU) in Foundry Tools is Microsoft’s comprehensive content AI service. It ingests diverse data types — docu...