Reasoning reimagined: Introducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning

By Dustin Ward

State of the art architecture redefines speed for reasoning models Microsoft is excited to unveil a new edition to the Phi model family: Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning. Purpose-built for scenarios where compute, memory, and latency are tightly constrained, this new model is engineered to bring advanced reasoning capabilities to edge devices, mobile applications, and other resource-constrained environments. This…

New Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for the highest AI performance

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6e-GB200 UltraServers, accelerated by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 to offer the highest GPU performance for AI training and inference. Amazon EC2 UltraServers connect multiple EC2 instances using a dedicated, high-bandwidth, and low-latency accelerator interconnect across these instances. The NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips connect…

Introducing AWS Builder Center: A new home for the AWS builder community

By Dustin Ward

We really love builders at AWS. We’re constantly thinking of new ways to help technical communities thrive and create spaces like AWS Developer Center and community.aws where people can connect and share their knowledge and experiences. Today, we’re announcing AWS Builder Center, a new home for builders to access all builder resources, engage with the…

Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

By Dustin Ward

Unlock enterprise-scale web research automation Today we’re excited to announce the public preview of Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry—an API and software development kit (SDK)-based offering of OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capability, fully integrated with Azure’s enterprise-grade agentic platform. With Deep Research, developers can build agents that deeply plan, analyze, and synthesize information from across…

Introducing Azure Accelerate: Fueling transformation with experts and investments across your cloud and AI journey

By Dustin Ward

As technology continues to reshape every industry, organizations are transforming with cloud, data, and AI—ultimately resulting in smarter operations, better outcomes, and more impactful customer experiences. From global enterprises to fast-scaling startups, customers are putting Azure to work in powerful ways. To date, more than 26,000 customer projects have leveraged our offerings—Azure Migrate and Modernize…