As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, the company is laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s digital economy with Azure AI Foundry. The AI landscape has become increasingly complex, with organizations struggling to integrate proprietary data, domain-specific actions, and secure environments with frontier models. To address this, Microsoft has introduced Azure AI Foundry, a unified platform for models, tools, and workflows that helps developers and enterprises design, customize, and manage AI apps and agents.
Azure AI Foundry: A Foundation for AI Advancement
Azure AI Foundry is designed to be an agent factory, providing a modular production system for modern intelligence. With access to over 1,800 models and sophisticated tooling, more than 60,000 customers are already building their futures with Azure AI Foundry. The platform has enabled organizations like Atomicwork to build AI agents like Atom, which helps IT and HR teams enhance productivity.
New Capabilities in Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft is introducing new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry to help customers build and scale advanced AI agents. The general availability of the Semantic Kernel agent framework will simplify the orchestration of multi-agent systems, reducing the code developers need to write. Additionally, the AI Red Teaming Agent, now in public preview, will systematically probe AI models to uncover safety risks, integrating Azure AI Foundry’s robust evaluation systems with Microsoft Security’s PyRIT framework.
Enhancing Developer Experience
Microsoft is also enhancing the developer experience with new tools and integrations. The Azure AI Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code, now available in public preview, allows developers to build, test, and deploy agent-based applications entirely within their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Furthermore, GitHub Copilot’s agent mode is now available to all users, performing complex, multi-step changes, running tests, and guiding developers through its reasoning.
As Microsoft looks to the future, Azure AI Foundry is poised to revolutionize AI agent development. Join Microsoft at Build from May 19-22, 2025, in Seattle and online to learn more about what’s next for Azure AI Foundry.
