Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era
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GPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service.
AI only creates value when it shows up in real systems—systems that are reliable, observable, and aligned to business outcomes. More than 100,000 organizations are already building on Microsoft Foundry, and companies like Adobe, Telefónica, and Tata Consultancy Services are running agents in production today.
At Microsoft Build, we laid out a simple promise for the agentic era: developers should be able to build an agent where they already work, run it on infrastructure they can trust, and put it in front of the people who need it— without stitching together disconnected platforms. Today, that vision moves from roadmap to reality with three sets of updates nowgenerally available in Microsoft Foundry:
- OpenAI’s latest frontier model series: GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6—each tuned to a...
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