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As you build services and software for your customers, Azure AI Foundry is your trusted guide, simplifying complex processes and empowering your team to achieve more. We released a host of new updates in Azure AI Foundry. Read the full blog for the details. Here are the highlights:

• Evaluate models quickly and easily: 1,917 models in Azure AI Foundry Model Catalog gives you choice, but evaluating the right model to use based on quality, cost, and throughput, or filter by industry, inference tasks like translation or text generation is important, and Azure AI Foundry makes this easy for your developers. But there’s more! Find out how Evaluations API and Stored Completions API help in evaluating and refining models.


• New models from Meta Llama 4, eight new models from Azure OpenAI Service, Cohere, and more, including a Deep Seek R1 variant developed by the Microsoft AI team that outperforms Deep Seek R1 on responses to blocked topics and reducing harmful content while maintaining the same reasoning capabilities. You can find this model – MAI-DS-R1 – in Azure AI Foundry today.


• Azure AI Services to help you reduce time to market! Faster customer satisfaction! With Azure AI Agent Service in Azure AI Foundry, what originally took hundreds of lines of code can now be done in just a few lines of code. Find out how Fujitsu and NTT Data are using it! Similarly, Azure AI Search connects corporate knowledge into AI applications. New features make Azure AI Search one of the most cost-effective options on the market, delivering an enterprise-ready, full-featured retrieval system with advanced search technology without sacrificing cost or performance. 

Again, find out all the details in the full blog and make sure you share it all with your teams! Also, keep an eye out for the AI Show videos for a developer’s take on all the cool updates!