Naomi Moneypenny posts

Partner Group Product Manager

Naomi Moneypenny leads product for Microsoft Foundry Direct models with flagship models from leading providers including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Black Forest Labs, Mistral and DeepSeek. Prior to this role, she led development of innovative, fast growing knowledge and communications apps for Microsoft 365. Prior to Microsoft, she was CTO at ManyWorlds. With more than 45 patents, deep background in machine learning and AI, Naomi thrives on making customers’ successful and powering their agentic apps with Azure AI’s robust platform.

September 22 5 min read

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks.
September 3 4 min read

GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days.
June 2 7 min read

A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle.
April 23 3 min read

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.
March 5 3 min read

Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry

Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments.
March 3 5 min read

Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry

Enterprises today face a familiar yet formidable challenge: mountains of documents -contracts, invoices, reports, forms – remain locked in unstructured formats.
December 11, 2025 2 min read

Introducing GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: The new standard for enterprise AI

Discover GPT‑5.2 in Microsoft Foundry—the next standard for enterprise AI.
October 15, 2025 3 min read

Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry

Turning imagination into reality has never been more possible—or more powerful—than it is today.
October 6, 2025 4 min read

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

Imagine a platform where every developer can unlock the full spectrum of AI: text, images, audio, and video.