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Compare Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding across extraction architectures, workload fit, Layout capabilities, deployment options, and practical evaluation criteria.
Learn why stronger AI models make trustworthy content extraction more important, how Azure Content Understanding and Azure Document Intelligence serve different needs, and what comes next.
Define and attach an outbound policy to a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry, observe calls in Audit, and verify allowed and denied destinations under Enforced mode.
Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and continue tasks over time. An agent might triage a newly opened GitHub issue, respond when a message appears in a Microsoft Teams channel, prepare a rep...
Foundry Dev Pack prepares your machine for Microsoft Foundry development with an all-in-one installer for the tools you need across the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents.
Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 improves multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lowers latency, and simplifies domain-specific customization with enhanced phrase lists.
Catch up on July and August in Microsoft Foundry: stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools on Azure-hosted deployments, Model Router updates, local inference improvements, and the SDK migrations worth checking before you upgrade.
Structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search are now available for Claude models hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, turning a model endpoint into a production agent platform.
Enterprise content is no longer just something people read. AI apps and agents are only as useful as the information they can understand, yet much of the world’s enterprise knowledge is locked in documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video. The latest Azure Content Understanding updates help developers turn that content into structured, grou...
Enterprise content is no longer just something people consume. As organizations increasingly rely on AI to extract and act on information from documents, images, audio, and video, Azure Content Understanding is expanding support for the GPT-5 series and improving grounding and confidence to deliver greater flexibility, efficiency, and quality. T...