Today, we’re excited to announce two major enhancements to model fine-tuning in Azure AI Foundry—Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with o4-mini, coming soon, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for the 4.1-nano model, available now.

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Explore the infrastructure and datacenter design that powers over 60 datacenter regions and 300+ datacenters globally with Microsoft’s Virtual Datacenter Tour.

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Agent2Agent can enable structured agent communication—exchanging goals, managing state, invoking actions, and returning results securely and observably. Developers can use tools they know, like Semantic Kernel or LangChain, and still interoperate.

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We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage.

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Learn more about the solutions that Microsoft and Red Hat have to offer that drive technological advancements and empower organizations.

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Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. 

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We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.

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Adaptability isn’t an option. It’s the strategy. Every day, we engage with organizations navigating growing business complexity across industries, geographies, and regulatory environments. From global manufacturers modernizing plants to financial institutions re-architecting for resilience, we are seeing the same pattern: ambitions are moving faster than traditional architectures can respond to.  Organizations must also contend with

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Azure AI Foundry is like GPS for your AI ambitions: it simplifies navigating the insane pace of innovation in the AI landscape so you see where you are today, evaluate what’s new, and plan, execute, and manage your growing AI portfolio.

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Modern innovation is how companies differentiate, and AI is the prime example In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, it’s astonishing to realize that many businesses still rely on systems built decades ago. Imagine this: 220 billion lines of COBOL code are still running in production today, powering critical operations in industries ranging

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