Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A
The real power of agents comes from their ability to connect to each other, to enterprise data, and to the systems where work gets done.
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. That’s where agent observability comes in.
Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes
Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools.
Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns
Instead of simply delivering information, agents reason, act, and collaborate—bridging the gap between knowledge and outcomes. Read more about agentic AI in Azure AI Foundry.
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.
Empowering multi-agent apps with the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol
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.
Announcing the availability of the o3-mini reasoning model in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
We are pleased to announce that OpenAI’s new o3-mini model is now available in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. Building on the foundation of the o1 model, o3-mini delivers a new level of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reasoning capabilities.