Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns those insights into actions for you. Instead of switching between multiple applications to gather data, find important signals and trends, and complete manual tasks, Quick Suite brings AI-powered research, business intelligence, and automation capabilities into a…

Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network. This cluster is the first of many, as we scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs deployed across Microsoft’s AI datacenters globally, reflecting our continued commitment to redefining AI infrastructure and collaboration with…

Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in Asia

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft supports cloud infrastructure demand in Asia As Asia surges ahead in digital transformation, Microsoft is committed to expanding its cloud infrastructure to match the continent’s demand. In 2025, Microsoft launched new Azure datacenter regions in Malaysia and Indonesia, and is set to expand further with new datacenter regions launching in India and Taiwan in…

Unleash your creativity at scale: Azure AI Foundry’s multimodal revolution

By Dustin Ward

Imagine a platform where every developer—whether you’re building for a startup or a global enterprise—can unlock the full spectrum of AI: text, images, audio, and video. This OpenAI DevDay, Azure AI Foundry is making that vision real. With today’s launch of OpenAI GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini, plus major safety upgrades to GPT-5, you now have…

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry that make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems, while helping organizations close the trust gap in AI. As agentic AI adoption accelerates—eight in ten enterprises now use some form of agent-based AI, according to PwC1—the complexity of managing these systems is…

Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Today’s enterprises are entering a new phase of AI adoption—one where trust, flexibility, and production readiness aren’t optional; they’re foundational. Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry—delivering powerful reasoning within a platform designed for business-ready safety and control. Check out the Azure AI Foundry…