Other updates include the addition of new specialized industry-specific generative AI models from companies including Bayer, Sight Machine, Rockwell Automation, Saifr/Fidelity Labs, and Paige.ai targeting the healthcare, finance, IT, and the manufacturing sector among others.
What is the new Azure AI Agent service?
The new Azure AI Agent service, which comes packaged with Azure AI Foundry, is an upgrade over the agents available inside Azure AI Studio and falls into the genre of autonomous AI agents that Microsoft showcased last month.
Autonomous AI agents, otherwise known as agentic AI, can perform tasks without human intervention and Microsoft’s new agents, according to the company, are targeted at automating business processes.
