Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA

By Dustin Ward

From startups to industry-leading enterprises, there is an insatiable desire for organizations to experiment with the idea of how the world could work differently. They explore bold, new ways for society to operate and meet market demand by focusing their efforts on developing innovative products and services. With 78% of companies using AI in at least one…

Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the first out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Beyond knowledge: Why enterprises need agentic AI Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) marked a breakthrough for enterprise AI—helping teams surface insights and answer…

GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here

By Dustin Ward

For business leaders building with AI, the conversation has moved beyond chat. The bar is higher: can your AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry. This is more than a new model release; it is the most powerful LLM ever released across key…