Summary The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. Enterprise AI is moving into production, and our customers are becoming multi-model. Organizations will use frontier models where capability matters, and smaller, specialized, and open-weight…
The next era of enterprise AI will not be defined by chat experiences. It will be defined by how well a model can work for and with you. GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry. It is designed to help organizations make decisions for complex work…
When a physical security operator begins a shift supporting Microsoft’s global datacenter operations, they depend on a collection of applications and systems that help monitor access activity, review video feeds, investigate alerts, and coordinate physical security operations across a complex global environment. Those tools must be available, responsive, and reliable from the moment a shift…
This blog post is the third of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The first post set out the three decisions that systems rest on. The second…
As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments. Customers are choosing the best platform for each workload, leveraging unique capabilities across providers to drive innovation, resilience, and business agility. Yet while multicloud strategies have become commonplace, networking between cloud environments remains complex. Establishing private…
Business leaders are facing a familiar challenge at an unfamiliar scale. Every organization is being asked to move faster as markets change quickly, customer expectations continue to rise, and technology advances at a pace that can feel overwhelming. Teams are expected to deliver greater results, often with the same resources they had before. AI is…