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How Toolboxes in Foundry simplify user delegation At some point, many agents move from answering questions to taking action. And when it does, the question becomes: whose identity is it acting with? Imagine you are building an internal employee agent.  It needs to call a private, Entra-protected MCP server for orders, and it also needs to use Mi...

Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer's private preview, and more.

We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation and optimization stack. Read as a feature list, it is a lot to hold in your head. So here is a simpler way to see it: these are the parts you need to build a learning system, with agents that get measur...

Why edge AI development is still hard  AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, privacy, resilience, and local control are essential. But building those experiences for production is still difficult.  Teams often have to solve m...

9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier    Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic patterns evolve and most of that drift happens silently, long after the dem...

Learn how new Document Translation capabilities in Azure Translator, available in Foundry Tools, help developers translate images, PDFs, Office files, DITA, XLIFF, and future LLM-powered document workflows.

Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models.

With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same thing. The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles requests, but it forgets to ask for an order number before looking up status. It...

Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability.   Enterprise teams need agents that not only remember facts, but also apply what they have learned to follow procedures consistently, recover from repeated failure mod...

Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production. AI adoption accelerates, so does the number of tools available to them. Discovering, managing and securing the right tools has quickly become one of the biggest challenges in building production-grade agents. Today, we are announcing new capabilities in Toolboxes in Fou...