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The Azure for R&D tag covers discussions about using Microsoft Azure as a platform for research and development, particularly in industrial and scientific contexts. A featured thread highlights Microsoft Discovery, an Azure-based agentic AI platform used by BHP to screen over 500,000 copper-leaching reagents, demonstrating how Azure can accelerate R&D by compressing years of work into weeks. The tag focuses on Azure's role in moving AI beyond office productivity into physical-world industrial science, emphasizing its potential to transform R&D workflows through computational triage and agentic AI. Topics include Azure-hosted AI models, industrial research applications, and the integration of AI into scientific discovery processes.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Discovery & BHP: Agentic AI Screens 500,000 Copper Leaching Reagents

    Microsoft made Microsoft Discovery generally available on June 2, 2026, and BHP says it has already used the Azure-based agentic AI platform to screen more than 500,000 possible copper-leaching reagents for a mining problem central to the energy transition. That is the plain fact. The more...