Current Microsoft News
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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps
Microsoft Agent Framework is an open‑source SDK and runtime from Microsoft that unifies the enterprise‑ready foundations of Semantic Kernel with the innovative multi‑agent orchestration of AutoGen, enabling developers to build, deploy, and manage production‑grade agentic AI applications from prototype to cloud at scale.
Foundry IQ: boost response relevance by 36% with agentic retrieval
Foundry IQ is a unified knowledge layer in Azure AI Foundry that uses agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search knowledge bases to automate RAG workflows and deliver up to a 36% improvement in response relevance by intelligently planning, selecting, and refining searches across enterprise and web data sources.
From Data Platform to Intelligence Platform: Introducing Microsoft Fabric IQ
Microsoft Fabric IQ is a new semantic, agentic intelligence layer announced at Ignite 2025 that transforms Microsoft Fabric from a unified data platform into a unified intelligence platform, enabling humans and AI agents to reason over live business concepts and take real‑time, governed action on top of data in OneLake.
Build smarter, connected agentic apps with Foundry Tools
Foundry Tools is a unified, governed catalog in Azure AI Foundry that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let agents discover and invoke Azure AI services, Logic Apps connectors, and enterprise systems, enabling developers to build smarter, more connected agentic apps that can reason, automate workflows, and take real business actions at scale.
Microsoft Agent 365 is a new Microsoft 365 control plane announced at Ignite 2025 that gives organizations a centralized way to register, govern, secure, and monitor AI agents—whether built on Microsoft, open‑source, or third‑party platforms—using the same identity, access, and security infrastructure they already use for people.