https://cyrilbouharb.github.io/tags/responsible-ai/Recent content in Responsible AI on Cyril's Cloud & AI DailyHugoen-USSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cyrilbouharb.github.io/posts/2026-05-31-what-s-new-in-microsoft-foundry-may-2026/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cyrilbouharb.github.io/posts/2026-05-31-what-s-new-in-microsoft-foundry-may-2026/<p>There&rsquo;s been an important development in the <strong>Azure OpenAI &amp; GPT Models</strong> space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.</p> <h2 id="whats-new">What&rsquo;s New</h2> <h3 id="tldr">TL;DR</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Trace-based evaluation for external and hosted agents:Grade real production traces from Foundry, GCP, AWS, or any framework — no hand-curated datasets required.</p> </li> <li> <p>Grok 4.3:xAI’s latest model lands in Foundry for advanced agentic and domain-specific workloads.</p> </li> <li> <p>DeepSeek V4:DeepSeek’s newest model family expands open-model choice in the catalog.</p> </li> <li> <p>Fireworks AI — May update:DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi 2.6 arrive via Fireworks for high-performance open-model inference.</p> </li> </ul>https://cyrilbouharb.github.io/posts/2026-05-12-what-s-new-in-microsoft-foundry-april-2026/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cyrilbouharb.github.io/posts/2026-05-12-what-s-new-in-microsoft-foundry-april-2026/<p>There&rsquo;s been an important development in the <strong>Azure OpenAI &amp; GPT Models</strong> space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.</p> <h2 id="whats-new">What&rsquo;s New</h2> <h3 id="tldr">TL;DR</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Foundry Local (generally available, GA):Local model inference is production-ready on Windows, macOS on Apple Silicon, and Linux x64.</p> </li> <li> <p>GPT-5.5:The latest GPT-5 family model is available in Microsoft Foundry, with default quota for Tier 5 and Tier 6 subscriptions.</p> </li> <li> <p>Microsoft Agent Framework tracing (Preview):Agent Framework agents can emit OpenTelemetry traces into Foundry for debugging and production observability.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hosted-agent tracing (Preview):Hosted-agent sessions, tool calls, and run steps can now surface in Foundry traces.</p> </li> </ul>