Azure AI

Unlock faster, efficient reasoning with Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning—optimized for edge, mobile, and real-time applications.

This edition of FYAI features Yina Arenas, Vice President of Product, Azure AI Foundry, who’s leading the work to empower developers to shape the future with AI.

Defend your AI systems with Prompt Shields—a unified API that analyzes inputs to your LLM-based solution to guard against direct and indirect threats.

We’ve pulled together the top 25 announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 across the Azure business—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure app platform, Azure databases and Microsoft Fabric, and our GitHub family.

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.

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.

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 are committed to providing digital stability. That is why today Microsoft is announcing five digital commitments to Europe.

To better understand how infrastructure strategies are evolving, we commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a global study of over 600 cloud and edge decision-makers.

Azure AI Foundry is like GPS for your AI ambitions: it simplifies navigating the insane pace of innovation in the AI landscape so you see where you are today, evaluate what’s new, and plan, execute, and manage your growing AI portfolio.