Overview
- Microsoft added Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1 and Haiku 4.5 to Foundry, broadening a catalog that now tops 11,000 models across multiple vendors.
- Model Router is generally available to auto‑select models based on latency, quality and cost, and Priority Processing enters public preview with SLA‑backed low‑latency lanes using GPT‑4.1.
- Foundry Agent Service gains public previews for Hosted Agents, Multi‑Agent Workflows and Built‑in Memory, plus a tools catalog of 1,000+ connectors including MCP, OpenAPI and browser automation.
- Enterprise controls arrive with the Foundry Control Plane in public preview and the AI Gateway, adding Entra Agent ID, policy enforcement, observability and integrations with Defender, Purview and GitHub, as well as one‑click publication to Microsoft 365 and Teams.
- Hybrid options expand with Foundry Local in private preview on Android alongside Windows and macOS, and a Managed Instance on Azure App Service in public preview, with Microsoft Foundry available today in Azure.