New AI innovations that are redefining the future for software companies
This year, at Microsoft Build, we introduced new AI tools and capabilities designed to empower every software developer to become an AI developer.
Announcements
Stay informed with the latest breakthroughs and innovations in cloud technology, directly from the experts at Microsoft Azure. Our announcements section is your go-to source for new features and pathways to empower your digital transformation.
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Announcing new innovations for SAP on Microsoft Cloud
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. -
Powering the next AI frontier with Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data portfolio
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. -
Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery
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. -
Agentic DevOps: Evolving software development with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure
Agentic DevOps is the next evolution in the software development lifecycle. -
Azure AI Foundry: Your AI App and agent factory
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. -
Announcing new fine-tuning models and techniques in Azure AI Foundry
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. -
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. -
Unlock seamless data management with Azure Storage Actions—now generally available
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. -
One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI
Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. -
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments
We are committed to providing digital stability. That is why today Microsoft is announcing five digital commitments to Europe. -
Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025
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.
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