August 2025 highlights GPT‑5 arrives in Foundry, Model Router adds GPT‑5 support, Responses API is GA, Browser Automation enters public preview, plus Sora updates, Mistral Document AI, FLUX image models, OpenAI gpt‑oss with Foundry Local, and SDK/documentation updates.
GPT-5 models are now available in Azure AI Foundry via Azure OpenAI. Designed for advanced reasoning and generation. One of the core capabilities of the model is tool calling, which enables it to interact with external systems by generating and sending raw text directly to tools. What Is Freeform Tool Calling in GPT-5? Freeform tool calling...
Overview Today, we are excited to announce the Browser Automation Tool (Preview) as the newest action tool in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service through API and SDK. This tool enables developers to build agents capable of performing real-world browser tasks—such as searching, navigating, filling forms, booking appointments, and more—through natural l...
July 2025 brings Deep Research Agent (public preview), GPT-image-1 model enhancements, new developer tools, and platform, security, and SDK updates to Azure AI Foundry.
Learn how to build collaborative AI agents using the new A2A .NET SDK, enabling seamless communication and discovery between autonomous agents in the AI ecosystem.
Latest features and updates in Azure AI Foundry for June 2025, featuring major model releases, Agent Service GA, enhanced developer tools, and significant portal improvements.
Generative-AI agents only become useful when they can do things—query systems of record, trigger workflows, or look up specialized knowledge. Until now that meant hand-rolling Azure Functions, managing OpenAPI specs, or writing custom plug-ins for every backend you own. MCP changes the economics: it is an open, JSON-RPC–based protocol—originall...
We’re announcing the general availability of Azure OpenAI’s codex-mini in Azure AI Foundry Models. codex-mini is a fine-tuned version of the o4-mini model, designed to deliver rapid, instruction-following performance for developers working in CLI workflows. Whether you're automating shell commands, editing scripts, or refactoring repositories, ...
Learn about o3-pro, the latest Azure OpenAI reasoning model available in Azure AI Foundry. Get access and start building your applications.
As we focus our work on empowering the agent design experience, a list of the new features in the we published earlier this week, including the intent triage agent and the exact question-answering agent, utilizing Conversational language understanding (CLU) and Custom question answering (CQA). We’re excited to share new enhancements to the customiz...
