17 becomes ubiquitous, everyone has the chance to drive things forward.” Sharma was joined by Anthropic’s chief product officer Mike Krieger to discuss the companies’ new partnership, which brings Anthropic’s Claude family of models to Microsoft Foundry. “There’s been a lot of shared DNA and trust across both companies, and I’m really excited to see what will happen when you combine the power of our trusted models with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365,” said Krieger. Sharma added: “Now Azure is the only hyperscaler to offer both OpenAI and Anthropic models to fully empower our customers to build the best AI applications on the planet.” With all this choice, picking the right model for the right jobs becomes more difficult, which is why Microsoft has introduced Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ. The solutions intelligently connect structured and unstructured data that agents use and recommend the best model. Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ together form IQ, a new unified intelligence layer from Microsoft across its data, application and productivity stack. In addition, Microsoft Agent 365 – the control plane for AI agents – helps organisations observe, manage and secure their agents. It provides visibility into every agent in an enterprise, access controls to data, an easy way to see and understand agent ecosystem, all while protecting agents against security threats. “Agent 365 helps you safely scale agents across a whole company, no matter how or why they were built,” said Charles Lamanna, president of business apps and agents at Microsoft. Althoff concluded the Ignite keynote by reminding attendees how many industries Microsoft-powered technology is helping to overcome challenges. “AI in the flow of human ambition, ubiquitous innovation and observability at every layer of the stack is about your IQ, the human ambition that lives inside your company,” he said. “At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more and that is what we’re going to do by empowering all of you to become frontier firms.” Microsoft also shared major updates to Azure and Fabric at Ignite, including: • Azure HorizonDB, a new cloud database service in preview, which handles demanding data storage requirements with up to 15 replicas running on auto-scaling shared storage. • Azure DocumentDB is designed for hybrid and multi-cloud flexibility by supporting advanced search and is compatible with MongoDB tools. • SQL database and Cosmos DB, which are natively integrated into Fabric so users can run workloads within one environment. Additional updates
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