Microsoft is pitching Azure and Microsoft for Startups as the foundation for an AI-native biotech operating model in 2026, arguing that young life-sciences companies need cloud-scale compute, secure model deployment, reproducible workflows, and agentic research tooling before they can credibly partner with pharma or regulators. The argument is not subtle: biotech’s next platform war will be fought less over who has the best model demo and more over who can turn messy science into governed...