All the Azure information you don’t wish to miss from Microsoft Build 2025

We’ve pulled collectively the highest 25 bulletins at Microsoft Build 2025 throughout the Azure enterprise—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure app platform, Azure databases and Microsoft Fabric, and our GitHub household.

At Microsoft Build, we got here collectively to discover the following frontier: how builders will form an agentic net. What felt totally different this yr was gathering at a time of such exponential technological progress, making the ability of neighborhood and the alternate of concepts extra important than ever. We’re reminded that in instances of fast change, open collaboration is what drives innovation. 

ChatGPT from OpenAI stands out as a major instance of the collaboration and innovation Microsoft is changing into identified for. With over 500 million weekly lively customers, ChatGPT is among the fastest-growing apps in historical past, and it’s constructed totally on Azure services. This deep collaboration is greater than only a success story—it’s a blueprint for what’s attainable when builders harness the total energy of the Azure platform. As Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, stated in his keynote, “as builders, our most precious resource is time,” and time is essential for our prospects and their enterprise wants. Together we wish to harness AI to reshape enterprise processes and bend the curve on innovation so everybody utilizing the ability of Azure can obtain extra. 

Below, we’ve summarized the highest 25 bulletins throughout Azure’s enterprise to maintain you forward—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure software companies, Azure databases, Microsoft Fabric, and our GitHub household. It’s superb to see how AI is increasing the scope of Azure and to consider how far the cloud will take us. 

Here’s the whole lot you don’t wish to miss:

1. Coding agent ranges up GitHub Copilot from a pair programmer to a full-fledged teammate to assign duties like code critiques, writing checks, fixing bugs, and implementing full specs.
2. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent in Azure frees builders by monitoring programs across the clock, responding to incidents in actual time, and troubleshooting autonomously.
3. New fashions joined Azure AI Foundry Models, together with Grok 3 from xAI, Flux Pro 1.1 from Black Forest Labs, Sora on Azure OpenAI, and extra from Hugging Face.
4. Microsoft Discovery was unveiled, providing a brand new enterprise agentic platform, which makes use of specialised brokers and graph-based data to speed up analysis and improvement for scientists.
5. An AI-optimized knowledge heart that’s first to carry an interconnected NVIDIA Grace Blackwell system on-line, marking probably the most superior AI coaching and inferencing platform on the planet.
6. Cosmos DB (NoSQL) is in Microsoft Fabric in addition to Azure Cosmos DB integration in Azure AI Foundry that streamlines dealing with of unstructured and semi-structured knowledge important for AI apps and brokers.
7. SQL Server 2025, now in public preview, is designed to securely energy AI functions—reworking right into a vector database in its personal proper.
8. Model router in Azure AI Foundry permits builders to routinely choose the optimum Azure OpenAI fashions for various prompts—boosting high quality whereas decreasing prices. 
9. Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now usually accessible, serving to extra firms like JM Family, Fujitsu, and YoungWilliams automate among the most complicated enterprise processes.
10. Multi-Agent Orchestration debuted for Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, offering related brokers and multi-agent workflows with help for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and extra.
11. Digital Twin Builder is now in preview in Microsoft Fabric, enabling firms to create, handle, and visualize digital replicas of bodily and logical entities at scale merely, with no-code or low-code.
12. App modernization capabilities in GitHub Copilot can replace, improve, and modernize Java and .NET functions whereas dealing with code assessments, dependency updates, and remediation, with mainframe modernization additionally coming quickly. 
13. Agentic retrieval is now attainable via Azure AI Search, utilizing superior strategies to enhance reply relevance by as much as ~40% on complicated, multi-part questions in early checks. 
14. PostgreSQL extension for VS Code is new and improved in preview with GitHub Copilot inbuilt, simplifying workflows and boosting productiveness via AI-powered help.
15. Azure and SAP deepened its partnership, launching SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Databricks on Azure, so builders can innovate on high of the core enterprise knowledge in SAP apps.  
16. Foundry Observability is now in preview, giving builders end-to-end monitoring, built-in metrics, and detailed hint logs of the reasoning steps and gear calls made by brokers.
17. Chat along with your knowledge in Power BI is a brand new Copilot-powered expertise for customers to work together with their knowledge via pure language, throughout any inputs, semantic fashions, apps and knowledge brokers they’ve entry to.
18. Microsoft Entra Agent ID can now assign a novel, first-class id to each agent constructed with Azure AI Foundry or Microsoft Copilot Studio, simplifying enterprise-grade id administration.
19. Data brokers in Microsoft Fabric function digital enterprise analysts, which you’ll carry proper into Copilot Studio and deploy throughout Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
20. Foundry Local is a brand new runtime for Windows and Mac for AI fashions and brokers, permitting builders to construct apps that work offline, maintain delicate knowledge native, and cut back bandwidth prices.
21. Global Training and Developer Tier are two new choices for Azure OpenAI in Azure AI Foundry, which make fine-tuning and evaluations of OpenAI fashions extra accessible, inexpensive and globally accessible.
22. Azure Native Integrations give builders seamless entry to software program companies immediately via Azure portal, SDK, and CLI: Arise AI, LambdaTest HyperExecute, Mistral, MongoDB Atlas, and Neon.
23. Microsoft App Modernization Guidance packages many years of enterprise expertise and technical patterns collectively to assist firms analyze and prioritize modernization efforts.
24. Expanded knowledge heart capability and new knowledge residency choices optimized particularly for AI, spanning over 70 areas worldwide—greater than some other cloud supplier.
25. Project Amelie was revealed as a brand new autonomous agent from Azure AI Foundry Labs with Microsoft Research, which might construct full machine studying pipelines from a single immediate.

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You can nonetheless watch the day 1 ‘opening’ keynote, the day 2 ‘unpack the tech’ keynote, and stream key periods from the catalog. We invite you to hitch the Microsoft developer neighborhood and to proceed rising abilities via Microsoft Learn.

To wrap, listed below are a couple of moments that stood out—capturing only a slice of the vitality in Seattle.