**Overview**

Core AI is at the forefront of Microsoft’s mission to redefine how software is built and experienced. We are responsible for building foundational platforms, services, programming models, and developer experiences that power the next generation of applications using Generative AI. Our work enables developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of AI to create intelligent, adaptive, and transformative software.

The Foundry Agent Platform team builds several foundational areas for Microsoft Foundry to deliver AI capabilities to Azure customers:

+ Agent distribution and integration features to help customers bring AI to where users already are
+ A unified data layer with strong enterprise guarantees that handles a wide variety of user-facing objects
+ Discovery and search features including the public Azure AI Catalog
+ Billing and metrics
+ Authoring frontier agents to improve our own efficiency

At Microsoft, our miss...