Pablito Piova

🌟 Excited and honored to share this! 🌟I’ve been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2025 🏆 in the AI Platform category, focusing on Generative AI within Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Services. Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege to: -Participate as an expert and proctor at Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Build -Share knowledge in multiple sessions at Microsoft Reactor. -Organize, together with the Global AI Community, the Global AI Bootcamp Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 with the NET-Baires community, where we keep driving knowledge in AI and .NET-Actively collaborate with technologies like Generative AI + .NET, Python, and Copilot Studio, helping professionals and companies boost their projects with artificial intelligence. Thanks to every person, community, and team I’ve had the chance to learn from, exchange ideas with, and build together. This recognition is an extra push to keep creating, exploring, and taking Generative AI to places we can’t even imagine yet 🚀 credly.com/badges/3804927… #MVPBuzz #AzureAIFoundry #GenerativeAI #AIPlatform #AzureAI #AIcoding #AI #dotnet #Python #CopilotStudio #GlobalAICommunity #NetBaires #MicrosoftIgnite #MicrosoftBuild #MicrosoftReactor #GlobalAIBootcamp #artificialintelligence

Microsoft Foundry's February changelog is worth reading. Claude Opus 4.6 as a first-party Azure model. Agent Framework at RC. Durable agents that wait days for human approval without losing state. REST API v1 in GA. The stack changed quite a bit. devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-… #MicrosoftFoundry #AzureAI #AIStrategy #EnterpriseAI #Agents #MicrosoftAI

12+ months of work. Now it's out. If you're preparing for AI-102 or diving into Azure AI, this one's for you. 🔗 amazon.com/dp/9349887177 RT if you know someone who needs this 🙌 #AI102 #AzureAI #MicrosoftFoundry #MicrosoftAzure #GenerativeAI #MVPBuzz

The goal was never just to help people pass an exam. It was to help engineers and developers truly understand Azure AI and build real solutions with it. Generative AI, Intelligent Agents, Microsoft Foundry, it's all in there.

🚨 My book is officially published. Ultimate Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) Certification Guide is now available. 🎉 A thread on why I wrote it 🧵👇

Everyone's debating which AI coding tool is best. Meanwhile, the real shift is happening in the terminal. GitHub Copilot CLI now lets you review code, generate tests, debug, and build custom agents, all from the command line. Microsoft just dropped a free 8-chapter course to get you started. Here's what most people are missing: the ability to define shared agents and skills at the repo level changes the game. This isn't about individual productivity anymore. It's about encoding your team's AI workflows into version control. The teams that figure this out first won't just move faster, they'll make AI-assisted development reproducible and auditable. Still think Copilot is just autocomplete? Full announcement below. developer.microsoft.com/blog/get-start… #GitHubCopilot #AI #Microsoft #DevTools #GitHub #MVPBuzz

Most companies are still using AI to write emails. Meanwhile, GPT-5.4 can operate a computer. Microsoft just shipped GPT-5.4 in Foundry with computer use, 1M token context, and a 33% error reduction over 5.2. But here's what no one's talking about: pricing at $2.50/M input tokens means the cost of autonomous agents in production is now trivially low. The bottleneck was never the model. It was trust. And with Foundry's policy enforcement and auditability baked in, that excuse is running out fast. Teams still debating whether to "adopt AI" are about to get lapped by teams already deploying agents that do the work. Where's your team on that spectrum? Full announcement below. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-… #MicrosoftFoundry #AIAgents #GPT5 #EnterpriseAI #MVPBuzz

Most enterprise data still lives in documents nobody wants to process manually. Microsoft Foundry now offers Mistral Document AI as a serverless model. One-click deployment, no GPU provisioning. It converts scans, PDFs, and complex forms into structured, machine-readable output, preserving tables, figures, and multi-column layouts with 99%+ accuracy across languages. What makes this interesting: the model runs inside your Azure environment. Your data never leaves your account. And you can connect it directly to Azure AI Agent Service, so agents can reason over extracted content and act on it. For teams drowning in document-heavy workflows, legal, finance, healthcare, this changes the build-vs-buy math significantly. Are you already using document AI in production, or still evaluating? Full announcement below. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-… #MicrosoftFoundry #DocumentAI #AI #MVPBuzz

Microsoft just shipped something in Copilot that matters more than it sounds. GPT-5.3 Instant is now live across Microsoft 365 Copilot. The headline improvement isn't speed or reasoning power, it's that Copilot stopped saying "no" to reasonable requests. Less disclaimers. More direct answers. Better synthesis when pulling from web sources. This matters because enterprise AI adoption doesn't die from lack of capability. It dies from friction. Every evasive response erodes user trust, and trust is what determines whether a team actually keeps using the tool after week one. The pace is worth noting too: GPT-5 in August, 5.2 in December, 5.3 now. Microsoft isn't waiting for breakthroughs, they're iterating fast on what shapes daily use. Are your teams using Copilot more with each update, or have they already moved on? Full announcement below. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft…

We just dropped a super practical .NET sample that makes Agent Skills feel real (and runnable in minutes). ✅ .NET 10 file-based console app (dotnet run file.cs) ✅ 3 skill types: prompt-only, .NET 10 file-based skill, and Python script ✅ Skills defined as SKILL.md and auto-registered as tools via FileAgentSkillsProvider ✅ Works with Azure OpenAI + optional azd setup/cleanup scripts Repo: github.com/Azure-Samples/…

You’re probably already using Responses API, even if you don’t realize it. In the last 12 months, Microsoft’s entire agent ecosystem converged on a single foundational layer. This isn’t just another API update. It’s architectural consolidation. I broke down what changed, what’s deprecated, and what this means for developers and enterprise architects in 2026. 👇 Full article linkedin.com/pulse/youre-pr… #MicrosoftFoundry #ResponsesAPI #MicrosoftAgentFramework #AIArchitecture #EnterpriseAI #GenerativeAI #MVPBuzz

🚀 The 2026 Imagine Cup Semifinalists are here!: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/studentde… 🚀 As a Microsoft MVP in AI and proud Imagine Cup 2026 Judge, I'm really proud to share this exciting news with the tech community! The teams and projects on this list will compete for a spot in the grand finale. It's been an incredible honor to serve as a judge and review such innovative proposals from students who are using technology to create a real and positive impact in the world. Definitely worth keeping an eye on who makes it to the final this year. Don't miss it! 👀✨ #ImagineCup #StudentInnovation #StartupFounders #TechForGood #MVPBuzz

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🚨 Azure OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o model versions (2024-05-13 / 2024-08-06) by March 31, 2026. In this article, I share what changes, what to check in Foundry, and how to prepare your deployments early. #AzureOpenAI #MicrosoftFoundry #GenAI #MVPBuzz linkedin.com/posts/ppiova_a…

🚀 If you want to level up your GitHub skills, this resource is gold: GitHub Learn is the official platform with free guides and workshops on Git, collaboration, Actions, and best practices. 🔗 learn.github.com Highly recommended for developers and teams building modern projects. Have you checked it out yet? #GitHub #Developers #DevCommunity #Learning #MVPBuzz

Real AI learning still comes down to one thing: building. Microsoft Copilot Studio Labs brings together hands-on, well-structured labs to create real copilots and AI agents, focused on practical, real-world scenarios — not just demos. A great resource to go deeper into Copilot Studio and applied AI. 👉 microsoft.github.io/mcs-labs/ Less theory. More building. #Microsoft #CopilotStudio #AI #AIAgents #MicrosoftCopilot #MicrosoftPowerPlatform #MVPBuzz

Check out my latest article: 🔔 Azure Computer Vision (Image Analysis) is retiring — and this is actually good news linkedin.com/pulse/azure-co… via @LinkedIn #MVPBuzz #MicrosoftFoundry #AzureAI #Azure #ComputerVision #GenAI #AIEngineering

Microsoft today announced GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry, setting a new standard for enterprise AI with a model designed for deep reasoning, large-scale context handling, and agent-centric execution that delivers auditable outputs such as code, technical documentation, and structured plans with greater efficiency and precision. Integrated into the Foundry enterprise platform, GPT-5.2 provides advanced security, governance, and compliance capabilities, enabling technical teams to build robust and scalable AI solutions across a wide range of industries. 🚀 👉 I invite you to read Microsoft’s full announcement to explore all the details: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/int… #Microsoft #OpenAI #AI #GPT52 #AzureAI #MicrosoftFoundry #EnterpriseAI #Innovation #TechNews #MVPBuzz #Azure #AIForBusiness

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