Microsoft has expanded its Azure AI infrastructure to better support inference-heavy, reasoning-based workloads, including the first hyperscale cloud to power NVIDIA's next-generation NVL72 systems. The company is enhancing its Microsoft Foundry platform, which serves as the operating system for building, deploying, and operating AI at enterprise scale. Foundry now includes the next-generation Foundry Agent Service and Observability in the Foundry Control Plane, which are generally available, enabling organizations to build and operate AI agents at production scale. The Foundry Agent Service allows teams to quickly develop agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, data, and workflows. Once created, the Foundry Control Plane provides developers with end-to-end visibility into agent behavior, enhancing both productivity and enterprise trust. Companies such as Corvus Energy are already using Foundry to replace manual inspection workflows with agent-driven operational intelligence across their global fleet. Microsoft is also simplifying the path from prototype to production with the availability of the Voice Live API integration with Foundry Agent Service, in public preview, enabling developers to build voice-first, multimodal, real-time agentic experiences. *Source: [azureai](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/03/16/microsoft-at-nvidia-gtc-new-solutions-for-microsoft-foundry-azure-ai-infrastructure-and-physical-ai/)*