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Microsoft Foundry May 2026: The Updates I’d Actually Watch Closely
The latest Microsoft Foundry roundup covers a lot, but the most important threads are trace-based evaluation, new model choice, managed isolation, and the continued rise of local and production-grade agent tooling.
Foundry Local 1.1: Real-Time Transcription, Embeddings, and the Responses API
Foundry Local 1.1 adds live microphone transcription, text embeddings, and Responses API support — all running locally with no cloud dependency, no network latency, no per-token cost.