Microsoft Foundry: Scale innovation on a modular, interoperable, and secure agent stack

By Dustin Ward

One year ago, at Microsoft Ignite, we set out to redefine enterprise intelligence with Foundry. Our conviction was clear: software would evolve beyond rigid workflows, becoming systems that reason, adapt, and act with purpose. We envisioned developers moving from prescriptive logic to shaping intelligent behavior. Today, that transformation is accelerating across industries and organizations of…

Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory. By packing computing power more densely than ever…

Powering Distributed AI/ML at Scale with Azure and Anyscale

By Dustin Ward

The path from prototype to production for AI/ML workloads is rarely straightforward. As data pipelines expand and model complexity grows, teams can find themselves spending more time orchestrating distributed compute than building the intelligence that powers their products. Scaling from a laptop experiment to a production-grade workload still feels like reinventing the wheel. What if…