Introducing STATE-Bench: A benchmark for AI agent memory
STATE-Bench is an open-source, memory-agnostic benchmark freely available to agent developers, researchers, and platform teams.
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From open source to agentic systems: Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2026
Open source is the foundation for AI and, as AI workloads scale, developers need that foundation to be more secure, more predictable, and easier to build apps and agents.
Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows
Conductor is an open-source CLI (MIT license, Microsoft org) that takes a different approach: you define your multi-agent workflows in YAML, and the routing between agents is deterministic. Jinja2 templates and expression evaluation handle conditions and branching. The orchestration layer consumes zero tokens. The structure is fixed at definition time—and that's the point.
Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents
Microsoft unveils the Agent Governance Toolkit to bring OS‑level security, trust, and compliance to autonomous AI agents.
What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2025
From improving reliability and performance to advancing security and AI-native workloads, our goal remains the same: make Kubernetes better for everyone.
DocumentDB goes cloud-native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator
DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator enables you to deploy and manage open-source DocumentDB on Kubernetes. Simplify cloud-native database operations today.
Accelerating AI and databases with Azure Container Storage, now 7 times faster and open source
The next major release of Azure Container Storage delivers higher IOPS and less latency compared to previous versions.
DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation
We'll create an independent identity for DocumentDB and provide a conduit for database providers to contribute to our mission.
Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale
From Linux kernel code to AI at scale, discover Microsoft’s open source evolution and impact.
Expanding platform engineering capabilities with Radius Resource Types
Now, with Radius Resource Types, platform engineers can define resource types specific to their organizations.
Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions
The Azure Incubations team is proud to share that Drasi has officially been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox.
Microsoft and F5 join forces on OpenTelemetry with Apache Arrow in Rust
Microsoft and F5 are collaborating on Phase 2 of the OpenTelemetry with Apache Arrow project.