New Delhi, April 17 -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on April 16 announced new updates for the tech giant's Azure OpenAI Foundry, which he celebrated as a "leap forward in AI reasoning", in a post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).

"More big updates to Foundry today: o3 and o4-mini from OpenAI are both simul-shipping, delivering a leap forward in AI reasoning," Satya Nadella wrote, quoting a post by the Microsoft official X account on the same.

According to the post by Microsoft, the Azure OpenAI Service has been updated to include OpenAI's latest o3 and o4-mini models, which provide key features such as: support for multiple APIs, reasoning summary, multimodality, and full tools support.

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