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Kimi K3 is now available on Microsoft Foundry through Fireworks AI. It's a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI with a 1 million-token context window.
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Your agent works in a demo, but does it hold up in production? In this #AzureFriday# episode, @shanselman and Sebastian Kohlmeier explore Foundry Observability and show how to trace, evaluate, and optimize agents.
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Meet Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's most advanced Opus model now in Microsoft Foundry. Combined with Microsoft Foundry, organizations can evaluate, build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI with native security controls, governance, and data controls.
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As @satyanadella says, we're making great progress on shipping MAI models that are higher quality, faster and cheaper across MSFT.
In PowerPoint, our image model cut costs 84% compared with GPT-Image-2.
In OneDrive, it lifted save rates 26% and cut latency by ~25%. It's also the default model in Bing delivering great quality and performance.
In Dragon Copilot, our transcription model now covers 58 languages and halves the error rate on multilingual clinical transcription.
And of course the flights we have in motion on GitHub and Excel will no doubt be huge too!
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What’s new with PostgreSQL at Microsoft in 2026? From developer tools, open-source contributions, Azure HorizonDB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and community initiatives, catch up on the latest innovations shaping the future of Postgres. Read the blog.
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Ready to design your app for scale, security, and global demand? Explore how Exclaimer built its high-volume digital signatures solution using Azure Databases to support enterprise workloads:
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Today, @MistralAI and @Microsoft are expanding our partnership to bring Mistral’s frontier models across Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local.
Europe should have access to the world’s most capable AI without compromising control over their data, operations, or digital future. By bringing Mistral’s frontier European models into our environment, we are providing customers with a trusted foundation for AI, one that offers both leading-edge innovation and the freedom to operate on their own terms.
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More AI workloads. More infrastructure choice. Microsoft and @AMD are bringing new AI and HPC innovations to Azure, helping customers optimize performance, cost and efficiency across a wide range of AI workloads.
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Your agent worked, it shipped… but it leaked your data.
In this #AzureFriday#, @shanselman and Sajeetharan Sinnathurai show how Agent Kit helps catch missing partition key filters, fix fan-out queries, and prevent cross-tenant data leaks.
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GLM 5.2, open frontier-scale intelligence on Microsoft Foundry with AMD MI300X.
Running a Codex goal with an open model never felt this good!
Managing PostgreSQL at scale? Discover how Azure and VS Code help teams identify issues faster, improve reliability, and optimize performance with confidence. Read the blog.
What’s the business value of Azure Databricks? Microsoft commissioned a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study, and the results for a composite organization were compelling.
Anavi Nahar and Jason Pereira break down the findings:
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From AI idea to MVP in 30 days. This checklist provides a clear path to building a working agent, with practical milestones you can apply immediately:
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy applications. Learn more:
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.@FireworksAI_HQ is helping teams scale AI applications with a production platform for open-weight models, supporting world-class inference, fine-tuning, and enterprise AI workloads.
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Agents are delivering measurable value across AI, data, and cloud workflows. The 2026 Agent Confidence Index reveals where technical teams are already delegating work and seeing results. Read the blog:
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In this episode of #AzureFriday#, @shanselman and Charles Feddersen explore Azure HorizonDB, covering performance and scale, AI Pipelines, and AI-powered PostgreSQL developer productivity using VS Code. Watch now:
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In Wolters Kluwer North America CTO's own words, “We use Azure Kubernetes Service because it enables more rapid innovation for us, as well as, scale for regulated workloads. It allows our developers to develop software in an autonomous way.”
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Three big updates from Microsoft Foundry:
✅ GPT-5.6 generally available in Foundry today
✅ Hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service are now generally available
✅ The Asia Pacific Data Zone is now generally available
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AI is driving new PostgreSQL adoption. See how organizations are moving to Azure to modernize faster, simplify operations, and build AI ready apps. Learn what customers are unlocking:
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