In this article, we’ll explore how to design, configure, and operationalize model evaluation using Microsoft Foundry’s built-in capabilities and best practices. Why Continuous Evaluation Matter...

Dragon HD Omni is Microsoft Azure Speech’s newest text‑to‑speech generation, delivering over 700 high‑quality voices with enhanced expressiveness, multi‑lingual fluency, and multi‑style control — all...

In our previous blog post, we explored why evaluating AI agents is more complex than evaluating a single Large Language Model (LLM), and we introduced the diverse set of evaluators needed to gain a h...

In today’s fast‑moving AI engineering landscape, developers need voice models that don’t just perform well—they need models that are fast, predictable, production‑ready, and easy to integrate into re...

Big news: Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms. This recognition, we feel, is validation of the work we’ve done to make AI d...

Developers building with visual AI can often run into the same frustrations: images that drift from the prompt, inconsistent object placement, text that renders unpredictably, and editing workflows t...

Black Forest Labs’ (BFL) FLUX.2 is now available on Microsoft Foundry.  Building on FLUX1.1 [pro] and FLUX.1 Kontext  [pro], we’re excited to introduce FLUX.2 [pro] which continues to push the fronti...

Today, we’re excited to announce that DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale are now available in Microsoft Foundry directly from Azure.These models bring state-of-the-art reasoning, hyper-efficien...

Fine‑tuning isn’t just “better prompts.” It’s how you tailor a foundation model to your domain and tasks to get higher accuracy, lower cost, and faster responses -- then run it at scale. As Agents be...