Driving ROI with Azure AI Foundry and UiPath: Intelligent agents in real-world healthcare workflows

By Dustin Ward

Across industries, organizations are moving from experimentation with AI to operationalizing it within business-critical workflows. At Microsoft, we are partnering with UiPath—a preferred enterprise agentic automation platform on Azure—to empower customers with integrated solutions that combine automation and AI at scale. One example is Azure AI Foundry agents and UiPath agents (built on Azure AI…

The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents 

By Dustin Ward

In the early days of the AI shift, AI applications were largely built as thin layers on top of off-the-shelf foundation models. But as developers began tackling more complex use cases, they quickly encountered the limitations of simply using RAG on top of off-the-shelf models. While this approach offered a fast path to production, it…

Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry

By Dustin Ward

Turning imagination into reality has never been more instantaneous—and powerful—as it is today, with the launch of OpenAI’s Sora 2: Now in public preview in Azure AI Foundry. Azure AI Foundry is the developer destination built for creators, from startups to global businesses. The platform now offers a curated catalog of generative media models, including…

Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation

By Dustin Ward

Together, Microsoft and Oracle are delivering the most comprehensive, enterprise‑ready platform for organizations migrating their Oracle solutions to the public cloud—especially those aiming to empower IT professionals and developers to streamline AI adoption and enhance employee productivity. Oracle Database@Azure was the first offering of its kind in the market and today has the broadest regional…

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

By Dustin Ward

In the transition from building computing infrastructure for cloud scale to building cloud and AI infrastructure for frontier scale, the world of computing has experienced tectonic shifts in innovation. Throughout this journey, Microsoft has shared its learnings and best practices, optimizing our cloud infrastructure stack in cross-industry forums such as the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global…