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Instantly create a production-ready Azure AI Search vector index directly inside Azure AI Foundry when grounding your agent—no prior search setup required.
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.
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.
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.
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.