Microsoft Ignite 2025 highlights new Azure AI innovations

Microsoft highlights key Azure and AI announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and invites developers to continue building through Microsoft AI Dev Days and AI Tour events.

• Ignite 2025 announcements center on Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, the Microsoft IQ portfolio (Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ), Azure HorizonDB for Postgres and AI workloads, Azure Copilot with specialized agents for cloud operations, and new Azure AI infrastructure hardware including Cobalt CPUs, Maia, NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, Azure Boost DPU, and Azure Integrated HSM.
• Follow-on activities include Microsoft AI Dev Days (Dec 10–11, 2025, online via Reactor), a global Microsoft AI Tour with free one-day hands-on events through 2026, community sessions at Ignite, and curated skilling plans on Microsoft Learn to help developers implement the newly announced Azure AI and cloud capabilities.