Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026
Azure Content Understanding adds GPT 5.2 support and GA SDKs at Build 2026 for unstructured content extraction.
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At Build 2026, Microsoft expanded Azure Content Understanding with GPT 5.2 model support for higher-quality extraction, generally available SDKs across five languages, and new agent and Markdown integrations. It matters as Microsoft's push to help enterprises operationalize multimodal unstructured content for RAG and agentic workflows, though it is an incremental product update rather than a major industry-shifting signal.