Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Microsoft announced three new artificial intelligence models Thursday, marking an expansion of its MAI (Microsoft AI) portfolio with offerings designed to compete directly on price and performance ...