AI is reshaping how we build, deploy, and scale software. As more apps become AI-powered, developers need environments that can keep up with speed and demands of innovation. We’ve heard from customers just how critical it is to have a zero-config experience when building AI applications, with streamlined access to compute, prebuilt models, and environment configuration tools.
We’ve been listening—and are excited to announce a new wave of capabilities in Microsoft Dev Box to accelerate AI development. Dev Box now empowers you to get started rapidly with ready-to-code cloud development environments optimized for AI workloads—whether you’re building copilots, training models, or iterating on multi-agent systems.
Here’s what’s new:
- Serverless GPU support: Spin up dev boxes with GPU acceleration — no additional setup required.
- Preconfigured access to Azure AI resources: Access Azure AI Services — directly from your dev box with secure identity passthrough.
- Agentic authoring workflow: Use natural language to generate and validate custom images for your team, powered by the Dev Box authoring agent.
- Dev Box MCP Server: Bring agent workflows into your IDE and CLI tools with the new Model Context Protocol server for Dev Box.
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