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2026 (6)

August (3)

ai: From single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-17

Microsoft Foundry now supports five new Claude capabilities on Azure-hosted models: structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search. The update positions a model endpoint for agent-style workflows rather than single-call usage.

ai: From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-12

Azure Content Understanding gained support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows, along with Sync APIs. The release focuses on helping developers extract structured, grounded data from enterprise content across documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video.

ai: Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-12

Azure Content Understanding is adding support for the GPT-5 series and updating grounding and confidence features. The change is intended to improve model selection flexibility, efficiency, and extraction quality across document, image, audio, and video content.

July (2)

ai: Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-07-22

Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry are presented as a way to let agents act on a user’s behalf while handling delegated identity across tools and services. The post highlights using a private Entra-protected MCP server alongside Microsoft’s managed Work IQ MCP server in the same agent flow.

ai: What’s New in Microsoft Foundry | June 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-07-07

Microsoft Foundry’s June 2026 update adds Claude GA and several agent-related features released between Build 2026 and the end of June. It also calls out autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, and Agent Optimizer entering private preview.

June (1)

ai: Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-18

Microsoft says its Build 2026 Foundry releases fit together as an outcome-driven learning system for enterprise reinforcement learning, centered on OpenEnv and Foundry. The post positions hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine-tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation/optimization stack as supporting pieces of that system.