Azure OpenAI

This blog breaks down the available pricing and deployment options, and tools that support scalable, cost-conscious AI deployments.

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.

This year, at Microsoft Build, we introduced new AI tools and capabilities designed to empower every software developer to become an AI developer.

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.

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.

Explore the infrastructure and datacenter design that powers over 60 datacenter regions and 300+ datacenters globally with Microsoft’s Virtual Datacenter Tour.

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.

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.

We are thrilled to announce the availability of the latest iterations in the o* reasoning series: o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

We are excited to share the launch of the next generation of the GPT-4o model series with GPT-4.1, 4.1-mini, and 4.1-nano to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

Read how healthcare providers are streamlining tasks, accelerating research, and improving patient care with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry.