Thivy

App Innovation Specialist - Microsoft Australia

[Thivy @thivy]

Setting up Azure Chat is now as simple as running these Azure CLI commands:

1. Initialise: azd init -t microsoft/azurechat
2. Deploy: azd up

Hopefully @savostrowski is proud of AZD UP as we are!

https://t.co/yJTKcyrO4Z

#ai #azureopenai #openai #azureai #azurechat

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

Check out these apps built by MAI-Code-1-Flash in VS Code. MAI-Code-1-Flash is optimized for GitHub Copilot for day-to-day development tasks. It now starts rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in VS Code. Let us know your feedback: https://t.co/WwQMSRfwrI

[Abhijeet Singh @abjt14]

We’ve achieved glass on the web ✨

Real refractions. Real DOM. And it works everywhere. Yes, even on Safari.

https://t.co/A3LimdS5xw

[Azure Cosmos DB @AzureCosmosDB]

Announced at #MSBuild2026! Azure Cosmos DB Semantic Reranker, Agent Memory Toolkit, Linux Emulator, and more! Get the scoop on everything we announced today at Build and what's still to come this week.

https://t.co/gD9ub4Z0kg

#MSBuild #AzureCosmosDB #AIApps

[fal @fal]

🚨 MAI-Image-2.5 is now live on fal!

📸 Photorealistic images with natural lighting and accurate skin tones
Refined text rendering for branding, packaging, and commercial design
Text-to-image and image editing with precise, design-ready control

[Thivy @thivy]

@calcsam @mastra Nice! Love to see first class support for Microsoft foundry and more specifically Hosted agents on Foundry.

[Thivy @thivy]

@pierceboggan @burkeholland LOL I didn't even realise it's Burke

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

We believe the agent harness in @code to be best in market today.

Today, the team shared a behind-the-scenes look at our harness optimization efforts, including our own offline evaluation suite vsc-bench:
https://t.co/NiG58H6fH8

[Thivy @thivy]

@jeffhollan look at that! Got @mastra working inside Foundry Hosted Agents! Mastra supports Responses API by default so wasn't too hard to implement it.

Still need to give it a full try of all Mastra features though.

[Thivy @thivy]

@jeffhollan I don’t think it’s going to stop anytime soon. But let’s hope Vercel AI SDK, Mastra and OpenAI Agent SDK continue to lead the JS ecosystem

[Jeff Hollan @jeffhollan]

Here's another reason why @Microsoft Foundry is the BEST platform in the world to build and run your agents: Our durable, long running agents come with Toolbox 🔨

Toolbox allowed me to reduce input tokens 90%(!!) and significantly simplify the amount of code needed

Check out the demo below and see how you can bring hundreds of tools through a single MCP endpoint -- all running in Foundry at cloud scale! ☁️

[Thivy @thivy]

@jeffhollan Monthly is too long of wait :) let’s do fortnightly and bring MAF into it as well!!

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

With the upcoming move to usage-based billing, the @code team has been working on a number of initiatives to improve the token efficiency of our harness while not hindering the quality of the agent, including:

- Prompt caching improvements
- Tool search tool
- New tools for search and execution

More here: https://t.co/uvPZaJv57q

[Steve Sanderson @stevensanderson]

You can extend Copilot CLI with any UI you want - here’s how! https://t.co/Kb0MgQDBAi

[Thivy @thivy]

@pierceboggan @Microsoft Yes for sure 10000%

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good - my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB of RAM at peak and transcribing 1hr of audio in ~9 mins https://t.co/lyu5rtXwPQ

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Thanks to Prime Minister @AlboMP for the warm welcome today.

We are making our largest investment in Australia to date, committing A$25 billion to expand AI and cloud capacity, strengthen cybersecurity, and help people and organizations across the country build digital skills.

[.NET @dotnet]

Three ways to author .NET agent skills — file, class, or inline — all running through one provider. Add script execution + human approval and you’ve got a flexible, governed skill model for real apps.

Blog: https://t.co/ZgtfK0ezzy

[Thivy @thivy]

@jeffhollan Sooo good!! Thanks for the video walk through Jeff!