These models, grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning, empower developers with distinct approaches to suit their application needs. Each model brings advanced capabilities such as struct...

Today, we’re excited to announce OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑Codex is generally available in Azure AI Foundry, and in public preview for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. This release is the next step in our ...

This post continues our series (previous post) on agentic AI research methodology. Building on our previous discussion on AI system design, we now shift focus to an evaluation-first perspective. Ta...

What Is Foundry Local? Foundry Local is a lightweight runtime designed to run AI models directly on user devices. It supports a wide range of hardware (CPU, GPU, NPU) and provides a consistent deve...

As a Microsoft Technical Trainer, I've spent years guiding learners through the evolving landscape of AI and Data. Throughout this journey, I've witnessed artificial intelligence revolutionize indust...

As AI workloads grow in complexity and scale, deploying large language models like GPT-OSS efficiently becomes critical. In this post, we’ll walk through how to deploy GPT-OSS using Azure Machine Lea...

At Build 2025, we announced Reinforcement Fine-tuning for o4-mini. Today, we are happy to promote RFT with o4-mini to General Availability on Azure AI Foundry. Customers can meaningfully fine-tune o4...