Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Foundry for .NET Developers
Use Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) from .NET: deployments, keyless auth, guardrails, quotas, PTUs, Agent Service and cost.
19 articles about OpenAI: in-depth .NET and AI guides, senior interview questions and AI news on DotNet AI Hub.
Use Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) from .NET: deployments, keyless auth, guardrails, quotas, PTUs, Agent Service and cost.
Build multimodal .NET apps that understand images, documents, speech and audio, and generate images and voice, with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Azure AI.
A practical guide to the OpenAI .NET SDK: ChatClient, streaming, tool calls, structured outputs, the Responses API, embeddings, images, audio and retries.
OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO on June 8, 2026, a week after Anthropic, at a last valuation of $852B. What a listing could mean for developers.
Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership on April 27, 2026: OpenAI can sell on any cloud, Azure ships first and Microsoft keeps IP rights through 2032.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, with top agentic coding scores and GPT-5.4-level latency, then brought it to the API at $5/$30 per million tokens.
OpenAI raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank and retail investors. What the record round means for developers.
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 on March 5, 2026, with native computer use, tool search and a 1M-token API context, priced at $2.50 and $15 per million tokens.
Apple announced Xcode 26.3 on February 3, 2026, with built-in agentic coding through Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, plus MCP support.
OpenAI launched a standalone Codex app for Mac on February 2, 2026, built to help developers run and manage several AI coding agents at once. What changed.
MCP Apps, launched on January 26, 2026 as the first official MCP extension, lets tools return interactive UIs that render in Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code and goose.
OpenAI signed a multiyear deal on January 14, 2026 for 750 MW of Cerebras computing power, reportedly worth over $10 billion, to speed up AI inference.
On December 9, 2025, the Linux Foundation formed the Agentic AI Foundation, with Anthropic's MCP, Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md as founding projects.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, merging fast answers and deep reasoning in one system, with new API controls, lower prices and fewer hallucinations.
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b in August 2025, its first open-weight language models since GPT-2, under Apache 2.0 for reasoning and tool use.
OpenAI agreed to buy io, the AI device startup founded by Jony Ive, for about $6.5 billion in stock. What its hardware push could mean for developers.
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini, released April 16, 2025, reason with tools and images, posted strong coding and math results and reached developers through the API.
OpenAI released GPT-4.1, mini and nano in April 2025: API-first models with a 1M-token context, stronger coding and more literal instruction following.
On March 26, 2025, OpenAI said it would support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol across its products, starting with the Agents SDK. What it means for devs.