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2026 (4)

March (1)

ai: What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | February 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-03-06

February 2026 updates add new/updated foundation models (Claude 4.6, GPT Realtime/Audio 1.5, Grok 4.0 GA), advance the Microsoft Agent Framework to Release Candidate, and move Foundry REST API v1 to GA.

February (3)

ai: What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Dec 2025 & Jan 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-02-19

Microsoft Foundry’s Dec 2025–Jan 2026 updates add several new foundation models, expand audio and fine-tuning capabilities, and introduce SDK changes including an azure-ai-projects v2 beta consolidation.

ai: DPO Fine-Tuning Using Microsoft Foundry SDK

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-02-13

Microsoft Foundry published a guide on using the Foundry SDK to fine-tune LLMs with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to better align outputs with human preferences.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Claude Opus 4.6, Available on Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-02-05

Microsoft Foundry now offers Claude Opus 4.6 in public preview, making Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 model available on Azure for enterprise use.

2025 (8)

December (3)

ai: What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October and November 2025

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-12-19

Azure AI Foundry has been renamed Microsoft Foundry. The October–November 2025 update highlights new announcements across agents, models, tools, and related platform improvements.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Mistral Large 3 in Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-12-04

Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model licensed under Apache 2.0, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure in Public Preview, offering enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning suitable for production use.

ai: Announcing Foundry MCP Server (preview), speeding up AI development with Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-12-03

Microsoft announced the Foundry MCP Server (preview), building on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to help AI agents securely connect with apps, data, and systems. At Ignite, Microsoft Foundry also introduced Foundry Tools as a central hub to discover, connect, and manage both public and private MCP tools securely, simplifying integration and expanding interoperability.

November (5)

ai: Translation Customization, A Developer’s Guide to Adaptive Custom Translation

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-25

This Microsoft Foundry Blog post, "Translation Customization, A Developer’s Guide to Adaptive Custom Translation," argues that translation is more than word-for-word conversion and is essential for global business communication. It highlights the need for accuracy, speed, and domain-specific terminology — noting that 70% of consumers prefer content in their native language — and frames a developer-focused guide for implementing adaptive custom translation to enable real-time, high-quality multilingual experiences.

ai: Introducing Multi-Agent Workflows in Foundry Agent Service

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-25

Microsoft Foundry introduces Multi-Agent Workflows in the Foundry Agent Service to help organizations move beyond single-purpose agents toward orchestrated, multi-step, role-based AI processes that include stronger governance and operational dependability for enterprise use.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Claude Opus 4.5 Available in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-24

Claude Opus 4.5 is available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers, introducing improvements in coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity with upgraded performance and versatility.

ai: How to debug and optimize RAG agents in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-20

This tutorial shows how to evaluate and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents in Microsoft Foundry using Foundry Observability. It recommends running end-to-end, reference-free RAG triad evaluators (Groundedness and Relevance) and applying advanced search and retrieval tuning before deployment.

ai: Introducing GPT-4o Audio Models in Microsoft Foundry: A Practical Guide for Developers

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-20

A practical developer guide from Microsoft Foundry showing how to start using Azure OpenAI's next-generation GPT-4o audio models to build transcription and text-to-speech applications. The post explains the capabilities of the audio models, required setup in Azure/OpenAI and Foundry, best practices for integration, and considerations for testing, deployment, and costs.