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Foundry Agent Service at Ignite 2025: Simple to Build. Powerful to Deploy. Trusted to Operate.

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Yina Arenas
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Nov 18, 2025

Build, connect, and scale intelligent agents — open, integrated, and enterprise-ready

The world is moving from AI assistants that answer to agents that act — systems that can plan, reason, and collaborate across data, tools, and people. These agents don’t just answer questions; they d...
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Nov 20, 2025

Ok - I just got the new checkbox for 'New Foundry', switching to it makes the previous work on AI Foundry incompatible. There doesn't seem to have any documentation on the new API for the 'New Foundry', and as well it doesn't seem that there is any Java SDK implementation, mainly focus on 'Python' & 'C#'.  I got access to a succinct new API documentation with fuzzy descriptions. I'm waiting for more information on the topic, to know if the previous framework plan to be completely decommissioned.