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We’ve pulled together the top 25 announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 across the Azure business—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure app platform, Azure databases and Microsoft Fabric, and our GitHub family.

This week at SAP Sapphire 2025 we are excited to share several new announcements and key strategic updates from Microsoft and SAP for our joint customers.

To help these AI agents become even more powerful and handle more complex tasks, they need state-of-the-art models, integrated tools, and built-in governance. At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re unveiling 10 innovations in Azure AI Foundry to make this possible.

In this blog, I’ll cover the latest slate of announcements across Microsoft Fabric and the entire Azure Data portfolio, designed to empower every developer on the planet to do more with data.

Agent2Agent can enable structured agent communication—exchanging goals, managing state, invoking actions, and returning results securely and observably. Developers can use tools they know, like Semantic Kernel or LangChain, and still interoperate.

Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning.

To better understand how infrastructure strategies are evolving, we commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a global study of over 600 cloud and edge decision-makers.

Modern innovation is how companies differentiate, and AI is the prime example In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, it’s astonishing to realize that many businesses still rely on systems built decades ago.

Forrester Consulting interviewed decision-makers from organizations using Azure Arc with cloud-based management services to manage their IT assets.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-image-1, the latest and most advanced image generation model, now available on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

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