Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search If you use Azure AI Search for your RAG applications, you are going to be excited about the new features that were just announced at Microsoft Build 2025. If you want a video that provides a good overview, I’d recommend watching Pablo Castro’s talk Knowledge Retrieval: RAG for enterprise agents with Azure AI Search, he did a great job highlighting most of the new features. Agentic Retrieval (new feature) From the documentation site: “… agentic retrieval is a new parallel query processing architecture that incorporates user conversation history and Azure OpenAI models to plan, retrieve and synthesize queries for improved results. It produces high-quality grounding data for custom chat and generative AI solutions that include agents.” This …