Microsoft Cost Management updates—July & August 2025
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Agent Factory: From prototype to production—developer tools and rapid agent development
It’s no longer whether you can build an agent—it’s how fast and seamlessly you can go from idea to enterprise-ready deployment. -
Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI
Ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents is critical. -
Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA
Scientific innovation speeds up with Azure’s cloud and NVIDIA’s GPUs—see how researchers are transforming discovery. -
Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. -
Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale
From Linux kernel code to AI at scale, discover Microsoft’s open source evolution and impact. -
Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision. -
GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here
Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry. -
OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry
With the launch of OpenAI’s gpt‑oss models—its first open-weight release since GPT‑2—we’re giving developers and enterprises unprecedented ability to run, adapt, and deploy OpenAI models entirely on their own terms. -
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Flash enables rapid detection of issues originating from the Azure platform, helping teams respond quickly to infrastructure-related disruptions. -
Reasoning reimagined: Introducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning
Unlock faster, efficient reasoning with Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning—optimized for edge, mobile, and real-time applications. -
Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Announcing the public preview of Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry—an API and SDK-based offering of OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capability.
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