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GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry
GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days.
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents
AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent performance at scale.
Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment
The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production.
Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS
Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more streamlined, cloud-native networking experience.
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GPT-5.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry
Introducing OpenAI’s latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry. -
External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview
Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) provides strong sovereignty over your encryption keys.
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