# Bad Influence story: Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 15:04. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/290ed17c-af98-4c87-b1ca-026c22d222cd

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Latest update (11-09 15:04): Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding for hard document tasks

Overview: Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding, now in preview, a mode that uses a document-native harness with tools to navigate tables, check values and calculate results. Microsoft's Foundry blog contrasts it with standard mode, which reads a document in a single efficient pass.

Microsoft recommends starting with standard mode and switching to agentic mode when accuracy requires more evidence work. The post walks through a calculation across a complex table, reading economic charts, and totaling a long network log.

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1. 11-09 15:04 · Microsoft Foundry Blog (from the company) · [Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding for hard document tasks](https://badinfluence.news/items/kxs9caj331cpdhyt3z65u8mz6)
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