Introducing GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: The new standard for enterprise AI

By Dustin Ward

The age of AI small talk is over. Enterprise applications demand more than clever chat. They require a reliable, reasoning partner capable of solving the most ambiguous, high-stakes problems, including planning multi-agent workflows and delivering auditable code. Azure is the foundation for solving these challenges. Today, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is announced as generally available in Microsoft…

Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft is redefining what’s possible in the public cloud and driving the next wave of AI-powered transformation for organizations. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries with AI, improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads, or modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions, Azure Storage has a solution for you. Learn more about Azure Storage tools and products At…

Actioning agentic AI: 5 ways to build with news from Microsoft Ignite 2025

By Dustin Ward

Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric. Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco, with 200,000 digitally joining us to explore the future of cloud and AI. What continues to inspire me most are the responses online and the conversations happening in our technical communities. It’s how quickly you’re turning these announcements into action and building…

New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

By Dustin Ward

Organizations running mission‑critical workloads operate under stricter standards because system failures can often affect people and business operations at scale. They must ensure control, resilience, and operational autonomy such that innovation does not compromise governance. They need agility that also maintains continuity and preserves standards compliance, so they can get the most out of AI,…

Introducing Mistral Large 3 in Microsoft Foundry: Open, capable, and ready for production workloads

By Dustin Ward

Enterprises today are embracing open-weight models for their transparency, flexibility, and ability to run across a broad range of deployment architectures. As the number of open models grows, the bar for reliability, instruction-following quality, multimodal reasoning, and long-context performance continues to rise.  Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral Large 3 is now available in Azure, bringing one of the…