Claude Fable 5 available today in Microsoft Foundry: Powering the next era of autonomous agents
Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest Frontier model, available today in Microsoft Foundry, powering agents in GitHub Copilot and Foundry Agent Service.
Announcements
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Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows.
Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases
Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications.
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
Build smarter agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ, unifying enterprise and external data into a secure, scalable knowledge layer for faster, higher-quality answers.
A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle.
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.
Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
With Cilium-based cross-cluster networking, we are delivering a managed, high-performance network that can span your entire fleet.
Azure Files Entra-Only identities: Advancing cloud-native identity and security
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB. With native Microsoft Entra ID authentication, organizations can now grant secure, identity-based access to SMB file shares using cloud-native-only identities.
From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world.
Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM
As cloud workloads become more agentic and AI systems handle increasingly sensitive data, trust must be engineered directly into infrastructure. Azure Integrated HSM brings hardware‑enforced key protection into Azure, extending cryptographic trust from silicon to services through verifiable and transparent design.
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local
Azure Local scales Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud, supporting AI and data workloads with full control, compliance, and disconnected operations.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.