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Azure News - October 13, 2025
1. Azure delivers first large‑scale GB300 NVL72 supercluster for OpenAI workloads
Microsoft announced deployment of a massive Azure cluster featuring 4,608 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs, designed as a unified accelerator system capable of 92.1 exaFLOPS for FP4 inference. The multi‑rack cluster uses NVLink 5 and NVIDIA InfiniBand fabric to tightly interconnect GPUs and supports large‑scale AI model training and inference workloads. Microsoft positions this as the first in a series, scaling toward hundreds of thousands of next‑gen GPUs across its datacenters, directly supporting OpenAI and Frontier AI workloads.
2. Microsoft starts migrating GitHub to Azure infrastructure
Microsoft has begun a large‑scale effort to move GitHub’s infrastructure onto its Azure cloud over the next ~18 months. The migration is framed as “existential” by the GitHub CTO, signaling that sustaining its AI, Copilot, and developer tool demands requires tighter integration into Microsoft’s cloud core. The move accelerates GitHub’s alignment with Microsoft’s cloud and AI strategy, but it also raises questions about GitHub’s independence, resilience, and operational risk during migration phases.
3. Azure AI Foundry adds multimodal mini‑models + Agent Framework preview
Azure AI Foundry’s October updates introduced GPT‑image‑1‑mini, GPT‑realtime‑mini, and GPT‑audio‑mini, enabling cost‑efficient multimodal AI capabilities in image, voice, and video contexts. Alongside that, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Agent Framework in public preview: a unified SDK/runtime to orchestrate multi‑agent systems, merging research efforts (AutoGen, Semantic Kernel) into production tooling. These updates strengthen Foundry’s positioning as a full‑stack AI orchestration and deployment layer.
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