Announcements

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.

Agentic DevOps is the next evolution in the software development lifecycle. Read how these AI agents help developers accelerate delivery and stay focused on high-impact work while remaining in control of the process.

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.

We have architected Microsoft Discovery to be highly extensible, enabling researchers to integrate the latest Microsoft innovations with their own models, tools, and datasets as well as a wide range of partner and open-source solutions.

Today, we’re excited to announce two major enhancements to model fine-tuning in Azure AI Foundry—Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with o4-mini, coming soon, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for the 4.1-nano model, available now.

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.

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage.

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

We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.

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.