azure foundry

Microsoft’s cloud catalog expanded this week with the public‑preview arrival of two DeepSeek reasoning models — DeepSeek‑V3.2 and DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale — a pair engineered for long‑horizon, agentic workflows and heavy multi‑step reasoning. The models are listed in Azure’s Foundry model catalog...

Microsoft’s Foundry catalog has added Mistral Large 3 to Azure’s model roster, bringing a high‑profile, Apache 2.0‑licensed open‑weight frontier model into the managed enterprise stack and shifting the conversation from “can we run open models?” to “how do we run them responsibly at scale.”...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 made one thing unmistakably clear for founders and early-stage teams: the next phase of enterprise software won’t be driven by bigger models alone, but by agentic systems—identity-bound, policy-aware AI agents that plan, act, and collaborate across cloud, productivity, and...

Avanade has launched an Agentic AI Platform — a Microsoft-aligned, midmarket-focused stack of pre-built industry agents, no-code/pro-code authoring tools, an operational cockpit, and a partner marketplace — explicitly designed to plug into Microsoft’s newly announced Agent 365 control plane to...

Fujitsu has been honored with two category wins at the 2025 Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year awards — the AI Innovation Award and the Migrate SAP Award — recognizing a generative-AI prototype built for Japan Airlines and Fujitsu’s RISE with SAP delivery under its “Higher with Fujitsu”...

SJR’s new GX Manager proves that personalization at scale can be engineered, not just promised, by pairing WPP’s content expertise with Microsoft Foundry and Azure Content Understanding to deliver an enterprise-grade, brand-safe system for AI-powered website personalization. Background /...

Microsoft’s Ignite this week doubled down on one thing: agents. The company used the Moscone stage to stitch together a sweeping product narrative — new infrastructure, multi‑vendor model choice, a governance control plane called Agent 365, and an expanding partner ecosystem that promises to...

MongoDB’s latest set of Azure integrations — unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2025 — stitches the company’s Atlas data platform more tightly into Microsoft’s agentic AI stack, promising easier access to live enterprise data, baked-in governance, and first-class support for embeddings and vector...

C3 AI’s announcement that it has deepened native integrations with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake) and Azure AI Foundry marks a decisive step toward packaging enterprise-grade agentic AI as a first-class part of the Microsoft Cloud stack, and it reshapes important operational...

C3 AI’s announcement of deeper native integrations with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake), and Azure AI Foundry is a clear signal that enterprise AI vendors and hyperscalers are moving past proof-of-concept experiments and into productized, platform-first deployments that aim to make...

Microsoft’s announcement that Anthropic’s Claude models are now available in Microsoft Foundry marks a major expansion of Azure’s model catalog and a strategic shift in how enterprises will source frontier AI inside Microsoft’s ecosystem. The integration makes Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have stitched together one of the largest and most consequential AI alliances of the decade — a three‑way pact that pairs Anthropic’s Claude family of models with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and NVIDIA’s next‑generation hardware, anchored by headline commitments that...

Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a three‑way strategic alliance that will place Anthropic’s Claude models deeply into Microsoft Azure while pairing Anthropic with NVIDIA hardware and engineering support — a deal that includes a reported $30 billion Azure compute commitment by Anthropic...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic today announced a sweeping, multibillion-dollar alliance that remaps who builds, powers and sells the large language models shaping enterprise AI — a deal that reportedly includes up to $10 billion in Nvidia commitments, up to $5 billion from Microsoft, and a $30...

Levi Strauss & Co. and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration to build an Azure‑native, Teams‑embedded “superagent” — a hierarchical, multi‑agent orchestration platform that Levi says will route employee queries to specialized subagents and accelerate the company’s direct‑to‑consumer...

Levi Strauss & Co. and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration to build a next‑generation, Azure‑native “superagent” — a conversational, agentic AI orchestrator embedded in Microsoft Teams — as part of Levi’s broader digital transformation to become a fan‑obsessed, direct‑to‑consumer...

Levi Strauss & Co. has chosen Microsoft to build an Azure‑native, Teams‑embedded “super‑agent” — a hierarchical, multi‑agent orchestration system that will route employee queries to specialized subagents and is slated for corporate rollout in early 2026 as part of Levi’s broader...

Infosys’ new AI agent for energy operations promises to fold conversational, multimodal large‑model capabilities into the high‑stakes workflows of drilling, production, pipelines and grid operations—packaged as a pragmatic integration of Infosys Topaz Fabric, Infosys Cobalt, Microsoft’s Copilot...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first Microsoft partners to deploy Azure agentic AI for enterprises marks a clear milestone in the shift from experimental pilots to productized, low‑latency conversational agents that can be deployed at scale—and it asks enterprise IT teams to make...

Microsoft is preparing to add short-form video generation to Copilot by wiring in OpenAI’s next‑generation video model Sora 2, together with a new Videos tab and a refreshed settings modal — an expansion that would move Copilot from a multimodal assistant that “sees and writes” toward a full...