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Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents

Microsoft just turned Foundry into a production agent OS. Runtime, governance, memory—everything developers need to ship agents at scale.

Reporting by InfoQ AI/ML 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Microsoft is shifting from model endpoints to full-stack agent infrastructure. This positions Foundry as the operating system for enterprise AI agents moving past experimentation into production workflows.

The key facts

5 to know

  1. Microsoft Foundry announced at Build 2026

  2. New capabilities: runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, governance

  3. Positioning shift from AI experiments to production systems

  4. Focus on developer tooling and observability rather than model releases

  5. Enterprise-grade agent deployment infrastructure

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Publisher excerpt: Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability,…
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