Microsoft Foundry adds multi-agent workflows, hosted agents, one-click M365 deployment, and fleet-wide governance. A technical deep dive for developers.

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Microsoft Foundry has evolved into a comprehensive enterprise AI agent platform with new capabilities spanning the full development lifecycle. Key additions include multi-agent workflow orchestration with visual drag-and-drop, hosted agents supporting any framework (LangGraph, CrewAI), one-click publishing to Teams and M365 Copilot, and a centralized Control Plane for fleet-wide governance. The platform now supports 11,000+ models including Claude, DeepSeek, and Mistral, offers zero-config enterprise data grounding through Foundry IQ, and introduces the Microsoft Agent Framework as the unified successor to Semantic Kernel and AutoGen. Production deployments at Commerzbank (35K+ monthly conversations), Takeda Pharma, and BMW demonstrate real-world scale, with 80,000+ organizations now using the platform.

Microsoft Foundry Now Builds, Deploys, and Governs AI Agents End to End.

The Developer Lifecycle: Build, Deploy, Operate

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