What's New in Foundry ― August 2025

[nicholasdbrady]

Here’s your monthly digest of What’s New in Azure AI Foundry for August 2025 👇

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🧠 Models

• GPT-5 Family lands in Foundry
• Model Router adds GPT-5 support
• New multimodal drops: FLUX.1 Kontext [pro], FLUX1.1 [pro], + Sora API updates
• Mistral Document AI (OCR)
• VibeVoice TTS (coming soon)
• OpenAI gpt-oss

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🤖 Agents & Tools

• Agent Service expands to 17 regions
• Browser Automation Tool (Preview)

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🛠 SDKs

• Python: Agents 1.2.0 beta adds async tools & evals
• .NET: tracing + streaming
• Java: Agent SDK preview
• JS/TS: new MCP & Deep Research features

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🌐 Platform

• New status dashboard (preview)
• Updated quotas for GPT-5 & Model Router
• Expanded tutorials (enterprise chat, evals, Terraform, CMK clarity)

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✅ We’re pushing to make #AzureAIFoundry the most open and interoperable platform for building agents and apps with frontier models.

📖 Full August recap here:
What’s new in Azure AI Foundry – August 2025