Microsoft is packaging its Azure AI Studio and other updates into a new service — Azure AI Foundry in response to enterprises’ need to develop, run, and manage generative AI applications ...

Microsoft wants companies to build their own AI-powered "copilots" -- using tools on Azure and machine learning models from its close partner OpenAI, of course. Today at its annual Build ...

The Azure AI Foundry platform, formerly called Azure AI Studio, helps cloud developers build, deploy, and manage advanced AI solutions using cutting-edge tools, models, and seamless integration with ...

Microsoft is consolidating its Azure generative AI tools into a unified platform named Azure AI Foundry. The company, which announced the new offering at the opening day of its Ignite IT pro ...

Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now. The company this week announced two new features, ...

Microsoft revealed a set of updates to its Azure platform during the Build 2025 conference aimed at improving dev access to AI-powered voice agents, document indexing and vector search integration.

And since no AI announcement in late 2024 is complete without mentioning agents, Microsoft is also including the Azure AI Agent Service in this package (or it will when it launches next month).

Microsoft’s decision to throw its weight behind A2A comes after the company introduced support for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI to the systems where data resides, in Copilot Studio.