Announcements

We’re excited to announce that Claude in Microsoft Foundry has new capabilities to support healthcare and life sciences customers. These enhancements offer advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and model intelligence purpose built for some of the industry’s most demanding real-world use cases.

CES 2026 showcases the arrival of the NVIDIA Rubin Platform, along with Azure’s proven readiness for deployment.

Discover GPT‑5.2 in Microsoft Foundry—the next standard for enterprise AI. Learn how advanced reasoning, agentic execution, and compliance-ready features empower developers and technical leaders.

Explore Mistral Large 3 in Azure—open-source, long-context, multimodal AI built for reliable enterprise workloads.

The cloud landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the exponential growth of AI workloads.

Announcing Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, in Microsoft Foundry. Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot paid plans, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the next generation of Microsoft’s databases: SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases, each redesigned to meet the demands of AI.

This week at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure introduces solutions that address your technology strategy questions with innovations designed for this very inflection point.

Agents are reshaping software. No longer mere assistants, they are becoming dynamic collaborators layered within our everyday tools.

Microsoft Foundry already offers the widest selection of models of any cloud and with today’s partnership announcement with Anthropic, we’re proud that Azure is now the only cloud providing access to both Claude and GPT frontier models to customers on one platform.

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Since its launch at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Azure Ultra Disk has powered some of the world’s most demanding applications and workloads.