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.
The video playground in Azure AI Foundry is a high-fidelity testbed for prototyping with cutting-edge video generation models like Sora from Azure OpenAI. It offers a controlled environment for developers to experiment with prompt structures, evaluate model consistency, and optimize outputs for industry use cases.
The "Open in VS Code" workflow, part of the Azure AI Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code, accelerates developer velocity by integrating agent or model API endpoints and code samples into a new workspace in VS Code for Web. This feature streamlines the development process, enabling rapid prototyping and deployment with just one click.
Major expansion of Azure AI Foundry MCP Server with new Models, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation capabilities joining the existing Agent Services, enabling developers to interact with Azure AI through natural language.
You’re building a next generation AI-powered app. It needs to be fast, private, and work anywhere, even without internet connectivity. This isn’t just about prototyping. You’re shipping a real app to real users, with AI that delivers value and scales cost-effectively. Meet Foundry Local—the high-performance local AI runtime stack that brings Azu...
Read more about how Azure AI Foundry integrates with governance platforms like Saidot, Credo AI, and Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to streamline AI governance. By embedding evaluation tools directly into development workflows, Azure AI Foundry helps users with governance requirements without compromising developer velocity, .
The Azure AI Foundry SDK, simplifying AI app development with a unified project client and REST API, offers capabilities like model inference, orchestration, and observability, enabling developers to build and manage AI applications efficiently.
Read more about the launch of Grok 3 on Azure AI Foundry Models. Combining xAI's model with Azure's robust platform, Grok 3 offers powerful capabilities for building intelligent assistants, processing large documents, and exploring new AI frontiers. Head over to Azure AI Foundry and give Grok 3 a try.
Announcing public preview of Azure AI Foundry Observability, a unified solution for governance, evaluation, tracing, and monitoring in AI development. This innovative tool empowers teams to confidently ship production-grade AI by providing continuous visibility across the entire AI application lifecycle, from model selection to real-time debugging.
Read more about AI templates in Azure AI Foundry, aimed at accelerating app development for businesses across various industries. These templates, derived from over 1,000 customer engagements, support popular AI use cases and enable developers to quickly design and deploy AI solutions, significantly reducing development time and complexity.
