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GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna are now available in Microsoft Foundry. Help agents accomplish more while reducing costs.
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SQL has powered critical business systems for decades. 30 years later, it’s still powering what’s next. Explore the Azure SQL Database Foundations series to modernize workloads, scale for the future, and build intelligent apps faster:
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Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. What we build for: solving the coordination challenges that emerge as Kubernetes environments grow across regions, clouds, and the edge.
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We're excited to announce the general availability of Troubleshooting Agent, a unified, built-in Azure Copilot capability that brings together troubleshooting insights, operational context, and recommended actions in a single experience.
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We believe customers make an AI platform choice for what is underneath: governed data and grounded agents. That's how Azure is built, and it's why this recognition matters.
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Azure SRE Agent now offers a 30-day trial with no always-on charges.
Connect to your environments, investigate production issues, automate alert response, and build AI-powered operational workflows. Learn more:
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GPT-6 Astra is now generally available. Azure customers can deploy now, in Microsoft Foundry.
With Astra, hosted agents in Foundry automate full workflows right in your environment, with enterprise-grade security, governance, and control.
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In F1, the data can't be late.
Michael Taylor explains how the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team streams car data to Azure and creates virtual sensors for split-second engineering decisions:
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Our new image model generates images 2x faster than GPT-Image-2, currently the best model in the world.
It's also 72% more efficient in GPU usage, so we can provide it at an incredible price.
This gives it the best price-performance score in the world.
Unbelievable work from the team. So much more to come! Try MAI-Image-2.6-Flash out now!
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We’re excited to welcome GPT-6 Astra to Microsoft Foundry.
Look beyond chat, Astra is built to work for you, act across your apps, and even use a full computer. Unleash a new wave of productivity for your organization without compromising trust and security.
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Fastest. Cheapest. Best. ... MAI-Transcribe-2
10x faster than GPT-Transcribe. 5x faster than Gemini 3.5
#1# on the Artificial Analysis accuracy-latency Pareto frontier
Priced at the lowest on the market.
Truly fantastic work from the team! Try it out below.
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Every AI agent depends on context. Learn how context engineering helps organizations improve answer quality, reduce retrieval costs, and optimize AI agents with Microsoft Foundry.
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Now available in Microsoft Foundry, Fable 5.1 is built for the long jobs: complex coding, multi-step research, enterprise workflows, and agents that plan, use tools, recover from failures, and keep going.
Don’t just test it on a prompt. Try it in a workflow.
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Connecting workloads across cloud environments should not take weeks or months. See how organizations can streamline private connectivity between Azure and AWS with a simplified cloud native experience:
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Proof, not theory: Microsoft Foundry agents help remove operational drag. Leveraging Microsoft IQ and Foundry, AI agents created efficiencies, gave rapid feedback on content, and thousands of Microsoft employee hours have been repurposed to strategic work.
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OpenClaw went from a weekend project to one of @github's fastest-growing open source projects.
Six months in, @steipete and several maintainers share what they learned about scaling contributions, trust, code review, and security.
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AI cost is about more than tokens. Every agent decision affects the cost of a successful outcome. Learn four ways Microsoft Foundry helps optimize agent costs through smarter routing, caching, and evaluation.
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Grok 4.6 from @Spacexai is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. It brings strong capabilities for coding agents, technical reasoning, and enterprise workflows.
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Deep reasoning at production scale just got easier to justify.
From Sept. 1: GPT-5.6 Sol in Microsoft Foundry at $4/1M input, $20/1M output through at least Nov. 30, 2026.
Advanced coding, agentic workflows, 1M context, with enterprise governance built in. Learn more:
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Intelligent discovery in Marketplace is now generally available worldwide. It helps teams find, compare, and choose cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents faster.
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