Today, we’re excited to announce three major enhancements to model fine-tuning in Azure AI Foundry—Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with o4-mini (coming soon), Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for the GPT-4.1-nano and Llama 4 Scout model (available now). These updates reflect our continued commitment to empowering organizations with tools to build highly customized, domain-adapted AI systems for real-world impact. …
Imagine stepping into a realm where the cloud meets cutting-edge technology, revealing the inner workings behind servers, fiber optic network cables, operations, physical datacenter buildings, and the most advanced AI infrastructure. This is Microsoft’s Virtual Datacenter Tour, where customers can explore the infrastructure and datacenter design that powers over 60 datacenter regions and 300 plus…
Over the past year, we’ve seen AI agents evolve from experimental tools to essential components of enterprise systems. From simple prompt and response bots to agents that act autonomously on your behalf, this shift marks a new era of software design where intelligence is no longer tied to static interfaces or single applications. At Microsoft,…
We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. Businesses continuously generate, analyze, and store data, accumulating vast datasets with billions of objects that span multiple regions. Relentless data sprawl makes it difficult for…
As the tech world eagerly anticipates Red Hat Summit 2025, Microsoft is proud to announce its role as a platinum sponsor at the event. Red Hat Summit is a premier enterprise open source event for IT professionals to learn, collaborate, and innovate on technologies from the datacenter and public cloud to edge and beyond. This…
A new era of AI One year ago, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers with the release of Phi-3 on Azure AI Foundry, leveraging research on SLMs to expand the range of efficient AI models and tools available to customers. Today, we are excited to introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning—marking a new era…